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Irrational eigenvalues of D-Dimensional Cellular automata

Dynamical Systems 2025-09-03 v1

Abstract

Cellular automata are dynamical systems defined on lattices and commuting with the Bernoulli shift. In this work, we focus on the spectral properties of D-dimensional cellular automata. We give a characterization of their spectrum from both topological and ergodic point of view. The main results of the paper show the impossibility for a cellular automaton with a fully blocking pattern to have a measurable irrational eigenvalues. Further more, a cellular automaton with a set of equicontinuity points of positive measure cannot have a measurable irrational eigenvalue.

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@article{arxiv.2509.00933,
  title  = {Irrational eigenvalues of D-Dimensional Cellular automata},
  author = {Nassima Ait Sadi and Rezki Chemlal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00933},
  year   = {2025}
}
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