Invariant measures and decay of correlations for a class of ergodic probabilistic cellular automata (Q983706)

The main goal of the paper is to find some ergodicity conditions for two-state probabilistic cellular automata, using an extended definition of duality. The basic concept used here is the ergodic probabilistic cellular automata (Ergotic PCA); by definition, a PCA is ergodic if there is a unique invariant measure \(\mu\) and starting from any initial measure \(\mu_0\) the system converges to \(\mu\). The paper is closely related to [\textit{F. J. Lopez, G. Sanz, M. Sobouka}, ``Dualities for multi-state probabilistic cellular automata,'' J. Stat. Mech. P05006 (2008)], answering to some questions for the case of two-state PCA of any dimension and any radius. The item is structured as follows: after a short overview of the subject, Section 2 details the basic definitions and notations of PCA (invariant probabilistic measure, duality, and ergodicity conditions). Section 3 contains the main results: some sufficient conditions for two-state PCA's local transition probabilities, and under these conditions the invariant measure is shift-mixing with exponential decay of correlation. The last two sections are dedicated to proofs of these results. Reviewer's remark: The text is very dense in mathematical expressions, which are presented in a detailed and precise manner. Hoverer, it is very hard to be followed. The order of assertions is not linear, the results and proofs are mixed and the reader has difficulties to clarify their logical order. But, finally, the paper contains important results for those interested in the domain of PCA.