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Biological systems exhibit remarkable morphogenetic plasticity, where a single genome can encode various specialized cellular structures triggered by local chemical signals. In the domain of Deep Learning, Differentiable Neural Cellular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ali Sakour

A domain in a Langmuir monolayer can be expected to have a shape that reflects the textural anisotropy of the material it contains. This paper explores the consequences of XY-like ordering. It is found that an extension of the Wulff…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph Rudnick , Robijn Bruinsma

We propose and investigate a probabilistic model of sublinear-time one-dimensional cellular automata. In particular, we modify the model of ACA (which are cellular automata that accept if and only if all cells simultaneously accept) so that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Augusto Modanese

The local rules of Wolfram cellular automata with one-dimensional three-cell neighborhoods are represented by eight-bit binary that encode deterministic update rules. These automata are widely utilized to investigate self-organization…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Kui Tuo , Shengfeng Deng , Yuxiang Yang , Yanyang Wang , Qiuping A. Wang , Wei Li , Wenjun Zhang

Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

For any Wulff shape $\mathcal{W}$, its dual Wulff shape and spherical Wulff shape $\widetilde{\mathcal{W}}$ can be defined naturally. A self-dual Wulff shape is a Wulff shape equaling its dual Wulff shape exactly. In this paper, we show…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Huhe Han

We report surprisingly regular behaviors observed for a class 4 cellular automaton, the totalistic rule 20: starting from disordered initial configurations the automaton produces patterns which are periodic not only in time but also in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason A. C. Gallas , Hans J. Herrmann

We study monotone cellular automata (also known as $\mathcal{U}$-bootstrap percolation) in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with random initial configurations. Confirming a conjecture of Balister, Bollob\'as, Przykucki and Smith, who proved the corresponding…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Paul Balister , Béla Bollobás , Robert Morris , Paul Smith

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

The asymptotic shape of randomly growing radial clusters is studied. We pose the problem in terms of the dynamics of stochastic partial differential equations. We concentrate on the properties of the realizations of the stochastic growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-17 Carlos Escudero

We show that a cellular automaton on a one-dimensional two-sided mixing subshift of finite type is a von Neumann regular element in the semigroup of cellular automata if and only if it is split epic onto its image in the category of sofic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ville Salo

We study locally interacting processes in discrete time, often called probabilistic cellular automata, indexed by locally finite graphs. For infinite regular trees and certain generalized Galton-Watson trees, we show that the marginal…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Daniel Lacker , Kavita Ramanan , Ruoyu Wu

Given any regularly varying dislocation measure, we identify a natural self-similar fragmentation tree as scaling limit of discrete fragmentation trees with unit edge lengths. As an application, we obtain continuum random tree limits of…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Bénédicte Haas , Grégory Miermont , Jim Pitman , Matthias Winkel

Understanding how microenvironmental heterogeneity influences tumor progression is essential for advancing both cancer biology and therapeutic strategies. In this study, we develop a cellular automata (CA) model to simulate tumor growth…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-26 Yue Deng , Mingjing Li , Jinzhi Lei

Growth-fragmentation processes model systems of cells that grow continuously over time and then fragment into smaller pieces. Typically, on average, the number of cells in the system exhibits asynchronous exponential growth and, upon…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Emma Horton , Alexander R. Watson

We investigate the asymptotic properties of random polytopes arising as convex hulls of $n$ independent random points sampled from a family of block-beta distributions. Notably, this family includes the uniform distribution on a product of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Florian Besau , Anna Gusakova , Christoph Thäle

We construct a cellular automaton (CA) model that describes the movement of a particle in a disordered system. The mathematical properties of the CA model were examined by varying the configuration of grid and determining the number of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Lander Besabe , Editha Jose , Alvin Karlo Tapia

We describe Stochastic Loewner Evolution on arbitrary Riemann surfaces with boundary using Conformal Field Theory methods. We propose in particular a CFT construction for a probability measure on (clouded) paths, and check it against known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Roland Friedrich , Jussi Kalkkinen

Weighted automata over the nonnegative reals form a fundamental model for quantitative languages. We show that, up to scaling, this model collapses to probabilistic automata. Concretely, we prove that every weighted automaton whose…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Smayan Agarwal , Aalok Thakkar

We show techniques of analyzing complex dynamics of cellular automata (CA) with chaotic behaviour. CA are well known computational substrates for studying emergent collective behaviour, complexity, randomness and interaction between order…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-03-29 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Ramon Alonso-Sanz