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Cellular automata represent physical systems where both space and time are discrete, and the associated physical quantities assume a limited set of values. While previous research has applied cellular automata in modeling chemical,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-10-30 Temitayo Adefemi

This paper concerns $d$-dimensional cellular automata with the von Neumann neighborhood that conserve the sum of the states of all their cells. These automata, called number-conserving or density-conserving cellular automata, are of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Barbara Wolnik , Anna Nenca , Jan M. Baetens , Bernard De Baets

The Global Cellular Automata (GCA) Model is a generalization of the Cellular Automata (CA) Model. The GCA model consists of a collection of cells which change their states depending on the states of their neighbors, like in the classical CA…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Rolf Hoffmann

Topological dynamics of cellular automata (CA), inherited from classical dynamical systems theory, has been essentially studied in dimension 1. This paper focuses on 2D CA and aims at showing that the situation is different and more…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-04-29 Mathieu Sablik , Guillaume Theyssier

The transport and chemical reactions of solutes are modelled as a cellular automaton in which molecules of different species perform a random walk on a regular lattice and react according to a local probabilistic rule. The model describes…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Karapiperis , B. Blankleider

This paper deals with the theory and application of 2-Dimensional, nine-neighborhood, null- boundary, uniform as well as hybrid Cellular Automata (2D CA) linear rules in image processing. These rules are classified into nine groups…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-04-16 Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Birendra Kumar Nayak , Sudhakar Sahoo , Sunil Pankaj Rath

In this paper, in order to investigate natural transformations from discrete CA to QCA, we introduce a new formulation of finite cyclic QCA and generalized notion of partitioned QCA. According to the formulations, we demonstrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuichi Inokuchi , Yoshihiro Mizoguchi

This paper studies two kinds of simulation between cellular automata: simulations based on factor and simulations based on sub-automaton. We show that these two kinds of simulation behave in two opposite ways with respect to the complexity…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Pierre Guillon , Pierre-Etienne Meunier , Guillaume Theyssier

In this paper we introduce the notion of quasi-expansivity for 2D CA and we show that it shares many properties with expansivity (that holds only for 1D CA). Similarly, we introduce the notions of quasi-sensitivity and prove that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Enrico Formenti , Alberto Dennunzio , Michael Weiss

Gauge-invariance is a fundamental concept in Physics -- known to provide mathematical justification for the fundamental forces. In this paper, we provide discrete counterparts to the main gauge theoretical concepts directly in terms of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Nathanaël Eon

One can think of some physical evolutions as being the emergent-effective result of a microscopic discrete model. Inspired by classical coarse-graining procedures, we provide a simple procedure to coarse-grain color-blind quantum cellular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 O. Duranthon , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

We derive a set of algorithms for simulating the diffusion-limited growth of faceted crystals using local cellular automata. This technique has been shown to work well in reproducing realistic crystal morphologies, and the present work…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-17 Kenneth G. Libbrecht

In this article, we discuss the family of cellular automata generated by so-called idempotent cellular automata (CA G such that G^2 = G) on the full shift. We prove a characterization of products of idempotent CA, and show examples of CA…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Ville Salo

A detail study on the In-degree Distribution (ID) of Cellular Automata is obtained by exact enumeration. The results indicate large deviation from multiscaling and classification according to ID are discussed. We further augment the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-27 Shu-Hao Liou , Chia-Chu Chen

This paper proposes several algorithms and their Cellular Automata Machine (CAM) for drawing the State Transition Diagram (STD) of an arbitrary Cellular Automata (CA) Rule (any neighborhood, uniform/ hybrid and null/ periodic boundary) and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2008-11-11 Sudhakar Sahoo , Pabitra Pal Choudhury

In programming language semantics, it has proved to be fruitful to analyze context-dependent notions of computation, e.g., dataflow computation and attribute grammars, using comonads. We explore the viability and value of similar modeling…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-12-07 Silvio Capobianco , Tarmo Uustalu

Any algorithm (in the sense of Gurevich's abstract-state-machine axiomatization of classical algorithms) operating over any arbitrary unordered domain can be simulated by a dynamic cellular automaton, that is, by a pattern-directed cellular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Nachum Dershowitz , Evgenia Falkovich

Cellular automata have long been celebrated for their ability to generate complex behaviors from simple, local rules, with well-known discrete models like Conway's Game of Life proven capable of universal computation. Recent advancements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Gabriel Béna , Maxence Faldor , Dan F. M. Goodman , Antoine Cully

In line with the stability theory of continuous dynamical systems, Lyapunov exponents of cellular automata (CAs) have been conceived two decades ago to quantify to what extent their dynamics changes following a perturbation of their initial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Jan M. Baetens , Janko Gravner

We discuss the action principle and resulting Hamiltonian equations of motion for a class of integer-valued cellular automata introduced recently [1]. Employing sampling theory, these deterministic finite-difference equations are mapped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-18 Hans-Thomas Elze