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The notions of universality and completeness are central in the theories of computation and computational complexity. However, proving lower bounds and necessary conditions remains hard in most of the cases. In this article, we introduce…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-09-17 Eric Goles Chacc , Pierre-Etienne Meunier , Ivan Rapaport , Guillaume Theyssier

Recursive equations for the number of cells with nonzero values at $n$-th step for some two-dimensional reversible second-order cellular automata are proved in this work. Initial configuration is a single cell with the value one and all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-31 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

We introduce a quantum cellular automaton that achieves approximate phase-covariant cloning of qubits. The automaton is optimized for 1-to-2N economical cloning. The use of the automaton for cloning allows us to exploit different foliations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 G. M. D'Ariano , C. Macchiavello , M. Rossi

In this paper we study in complete generality the family of two-state, deterministic, monotone, local, homogeneous cellular automata in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with random initial configurations. Formally, we are given a set…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Béla Bollobás , Paul Smith , Andrew Uzzell

The paper proposes a simple formalism for dealing with deterministic, non-deterministic and stochastic cellular automata in a unifying and composable manner. Armed with this formalism, we extend the notion of intrinsic simulation between…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Pablo Arrighi , Nicolas Schabanel , Guillaume Theyssier

Cellular automata are topological dynamical systems. We consider the problem of deciding whether two cellular automata are conjugate or not. We also consider deciding strong conjugacy, that is, conjugacy by a map that commutes with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Joonatan Jalonen , Jarkko Kari

Cellular automata on the triangular grid are here referred to as Triangular Automata (TA). This paper focuses on the simplest class of TA, called Elementary Triangular Automata (ETA). They are argued to be the two-dimensional counterpart of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-11-11 Paul Cousin

Recently Prosen and Mej\'ia-Monasterio (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49 (2016) 185003) obtained exact nonequilibrium steady states of an integrable and reversible cellular automaton driven by some stochastic boundary conditions. In this paper,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Atsuo Inoue , Shinji Takesue

Tensor network states provide an efficient class of states that faithfully capture strongly correlated quantum models and systems in classical statistical mechanics. While tensor networks can now be seen as becoming standard tools in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 A. Nietner , B. Vanhecke , F. Verstraete , J. Eisert , L. Vanderstraeten

State-of-the-art review of cellular automata, cellular automata for partial differential equations, differential equations for cellular automata and pattern formation in biology and engineering.

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-03-11 Xin-She Yang , Y. Young

In this work, we investigate the computational aspects of asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs), a modification of cellular automata in which cells update independently, following an asynchronous schedule. We introduce flip automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ivan Baburin , Matthew Cook , Florian Grötschla , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

There exist f.g.-universal cellular automata groups which are quotients of $\mathbb{Z} * \mathbb{Z}_2$ or $\mathbb{Z}_2 * \mathbb{Z}_2 * \mathbb{Z}_2$, as previously conjectured by the author.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Ville Salo

We propose and discuss two variants of kinetic particle models - cellular automata in 1+1 dimensions, which have some appeal due to their simplicity and intriguing properties which could warrant further research and applications. The first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-17 Tomaz Prosen

In this paper, we investigate the halting problem for deterministic cellula automata in the pentagrid. We prove that the problem is decidable when the cellular automaton starts its computation from a finite configuration and when it has at…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Maurice Margenstern

Cellular Automata have been used since their introduction as a discrete tool of modelization. In many of the physical processes one may modelize thus (such as bootstrap percolation, forest fire or epidemic propagation models, life without…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Florent Becker , Diego Maldonado , Nicolas Ollinger , Guillaume Theyssier

A cellular automaton that is a generalization of the box-ball system with either many kinds of balls or finite carrier capacity is proposed and studied through two discrete integrable systems: nonautonomous discrete KP lattice and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-06-08 Kazuki Maeda

We say that a Cellular Automata (CA) is coalescing when its execution on two distinct (random) initial configurations in the same asynchronous mode (the same cells are updated in each configuration at each time step) makes both…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-12-13 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier , Michel Morvan

In this paper we study the family of two-state Totalistic Freezing Cellular Automata (TFCA) defined over the triangular and square grids with von Neumann neighborhoods. We say that a Cellular Automaton is Freezing and Totalistic if the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Eric Goles , Diego Maldonado , Pedro Montealegre , Nicolas Ollinger

In this paper we present two interesting properties of stochastic cellular automata that can be helpful in analyzing the dynamical behavior of such automata. The first property allows for calculating cell-wise probability distributions over…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Witold Bołt , Jan M. Baetens , Bernard DeBaets

We Propose A Novel Automaton Model which uses Arithmetic Operations as the Evolving Rules, each cell has the states of the Natural Numbers k = (N), a radius of r = 1/2 and operates on an arbitrary input size. The Automaton reads an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Abdulrhman Elnekiti