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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

A method for studying the qualitative dynamical properties of abstract computing machines based on the approximation of their program-size complexity using a general lossless compression algorithm is presented. It is shown that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-01-24 Hector Zenil

In this work, the one-dimensional Cellular Automaton is extended to one that involves two sets of symbols and two global rules. As a main result, the Extended Curtis-Hedlund-Lyndon Theorem is demonstrated. Such constructions can be useful…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-02-25 Pouya Mehdipour , Mostafa Salarinoghabi , Paula Gibrim

We describe a class of cellular automata (CAs) that are end-to-end differentiable. DCAs interpolate the behavior of ordinary CAs through rules that act on distributions of states. The gradient of a DCA with respect to its parameters can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Carlos Martin

We provide algebraic criteria for the unitarity of linear quantum cellular automata, i.e. one dimensional quantum cellular automata. We derive these both by direct combinatorial arguments, and by adding constraints into the model which do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi

We propose a generic categorical framework for learning unknown formal languages of various types (e.g. finite or infinite words, weighted and nominal languages). Our approach is parametric in a monad T that represents the given type of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Henning Urbat , Lutz Schröder

We introduce and study cellular automata whose cell spaces are left-homogeneous spaces. Examples of left-homogeneous spaces are spheres, Euclidean spaces, as well as hyperbolic spaces acted on by isometries; uniform tilings acted on by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Simon Wacker

Cellular automata are capable of developing complex behaviors based on simple local interactions between their elements. Some of these characteristics have been used to propose and improve meta-heuristics for global optimization; however,…

This paper examines the claim that cellular automata (CA) belonging to Class III (in Wolfram's classification) are capable of (Turing universal) computation. We explore some chaotic CA (believed to belong to Class III) reported over the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-04-05 Genaro J. Martinez , Juan C. Seck-Tuoh-Mora , Hector Zenil

The generic limit set of a topological dynamical system of the smallest closed subset of the phase space that has a comeager realm of attraction. It intuitively captures the asymptotic dynamics of almost all initial conditions. It was…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Ilkka Törmä

This paper studies three classes of cellular automata from a computational point of view: freezing cellular automata where the state of a cell can only decrease according to some order on states, cellular automata where each cell only makes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Nicolas Ollinger , Guillaume Theyssier

We construct an internal language for cartesian closed bicategories. Precisely, we introduce a type theory modelling the structure of a cartesian closed bicategory and show that its syntactic model satisfies an appropriate universal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Marcelo Fiore , Philip Saville

In this paper we initiate the study of cellular automata on racks. A rack $R$ is a set with a self-distributive binary operation. The rack $R$ acts on the set $A^R$ of configurations from $R$ to a set $A$. We define the cellular automaton…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Naqeeb ur Rehman , Muhammad Khuram Shahzad

In this paper we study categories of tilting modules. Our starting point is the tilting modules for a reductive algebraic group G in positive characteristic. Here we extend the main result in [8] by proving that these tilting modules form a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Henning Haahr Andersen

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

Wolfram has provided a qualitative classification of cellular automata(CA) rules according to which, there exits a class of CA rules (called Class 4) which exhibit complex pattern formation and long-lived dynamical activity (long…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Avinash Dhar , Porus Lakdawala , Gautam Mandal , Spenta R. Wadia

This paper explores the interplay between category theory, topology, and the algebraic theory of finite groups. Our analysis unfolds in three stages. First, we establish the foundational universe of our objects: the complete and cocomplete…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Ismael Gutierrez Garcia , Luz Adriana Mejía Castaño

The scientific and practical needs of the twenty-first century lead humankind to convergence of the specialized and diverse branches of science and technology. This convergence reveals the need for new mathematical theories capable of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Aydin Manzouri

We develop a general theory of cluster categories, applying to a 2-Calabi-Yau extriangulated category $\mathcal{C}$ and cluster-tilting subcategory $\mathcal{T}$ satisfying only mild finiteness conditions. We show that the structure theory…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Jan E. Grabowski , Matthew Pressland

Describing complex phenomena by means of cellular automata (CA) has shown to be a very effective approach in pure and applied sciences. In fact, the number of published papers concerning this topic has tremendously increased over the last…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-06-13 Luan Carlos de Sena Monteiro Ozelim , André Luís Brasil Cavalcante , Lucas Parreira de Faria Borges