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Number-conserving cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems that simulate interacting particles like e.g. grains of sand. In an earlier paper, I had already derived a uniform construction for all transition rules of one-dimensional…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-06-02 Markus Redeker

Partitioned cellular automata are known to be an useful tool to simulate linear and nonlinear problems in physics, specially because they allow for a straightforward way to define conserved quantities and reversible dynamics. Here we show…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-12-17 Pedro C. S. Costa , Fernando de Melo

Cellular Automata (CA) are a class of discrete dynamical systems that have been widely used to model complex systems in which the dynamics is specified at local cell-scale. Classically, CA are run on a regular lattice and with perfect…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Nazim A. Fates , Michel Morvan

Cellular Automata are discrete dynamical systems that evolve following simple and local rules. Despite of its local simplicity, knowledge discovery in CA is a NP problem. This is the main motivation for using data mining techniques for CA…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gilson A. Giraldi , Antonio A. F. Oliveira , Leonardo Carvalho

Probabilistic cellular automata describe the dynamics of classical spin models, which, for sufficiently small temperature $T$, can serve as classical memory capable of storing information even in the presence of nonzero external magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-30 Annie Ray , Raymond Laflamme , Aleksander Kubica

We propose some conjectures for asymptotic distribution of probabilistic Burgers cellular automaton (PBCA) which is defined by a simple motion rule of particles including a probabilistic parameter. Asymptotic distribution of configurations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Kazushige Endo

From the perspective of the large deviations theory of occupational measures, the paper considers Probabilistic Cellular Automata (PCA) as Markov chains on infinite dimensional space. It turns out that for a wide range of PCA, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alex Eizenberg

We present a family of one-dimensional cellular automata modeling the diffusion of an innovation in a population. Starting from simple deterministic rules, we construct models parameterized by the interaction range and exhibiting a…

adap-org · Physics 2023-12-18 Nino Boccara , Henryk Fuks

We propose a new abstract formalism for probabilistic timed systems, Parametric Interval Probabilistic Timed Automata, based on an extension of Parametric Timed Automata and Interval Markov Chains. In this context, we consider the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Étienne André , Benoît Delahaye , Paulin Fournier

We study lattice spin systems and analyze the evolution of Gaussian concentration bounds (GCB) under the action of probabilistic cellular automata (PCA), which serve as discrete-time analogues of Markovian spin-flip dynamics. We establish…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Jean-René Chazottes , Frank Redig , Edgardo Ugalde

This paper studies directional dynamics in cellular automata, a formalism previously introduced by the third author. The central idea is to study the dynamical behaviour of a cellular automaton through the conjoint action of its global rule…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-08-23 Martin Delacourt , Victor Poupet , Mathieu Sablik , Guillaume Theyssier

A cellular automaton is a deterministic and exactly computable dynamical system which mimics certain fundamental aspects of physical dynamics such as spatial locality and finite entropy. CA systems can be constructed which have additional…

comp-gas · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Margolus

We study the set of strictly periodic points in surjective cellular automata, i.e., the set of those configurations which are temporally periodic for a given automaton but they not spatially periodic. This set turns out to be dense for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Alberto Dennunzio , Pietro Di Lena , Luciano Margara

The cellular automata discrete dynamical system is considered as the two-stage process: the majority rule for the change in the automata state and the rule for the change in topological relations between automata. The influence of changing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Danuta Makowiec

In the present work we introduce a stochastic cellular automata model in order to simulate the dynamics of the stock market. A direct percolation method is used to create a hierarchy of clusters of active traders on a two dimensional grid.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bartolozzi , A. W. Thomas

Probabilistic cellular automata are prototypes of non equilibrium critical phenomena. This class of models includes among others the directed percolation problem (Domany Kinzel model) and the dynamical Ising model. The critical properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Franco Bagnoli , Paolo Palmerini , Raul Rechtman

We apply a recently proposed dynamically driven renormalization group scheme to probabilistic cellular automata having one absorbing state. We have found just one unstable fixed point with one relevant direction. In the limit of small…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-28 M. J. de Oliveira , J. Satulovsky

Cellular Automata (CA) are discrete dynamical systems and an abstract model of parallel computation. The limit set of a cellular automaton is its maximal topological attractor. A well know result, due to Kari, says that all nontrivial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-02-10 Pietro Di Lena , Luciano Margara

We study self-similarity in one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) using the renormalization technique. We introduce a general framework for algebraic construction of renormalization groups (RG) on cellular automata and apply…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-22 Erik Edlund , Martin Nilsson Jacobi

Cyclic cellular automata (CCA) are models of excitable media. Started from random initial conditions, they produce several different kinds of spatial structure, depending on their control parameters. We introduce new tools from information…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Kristina Lisa Shalizi