A full computation-relevant topological dynamics classification of elementary cellular automata

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DOI10.1063/1.4771662zbMATH Open1319.37008arXiv1107.2080OpenAlexW3100265383WikidataQ51282189 ScholiaQ51282189MaRDI QIDQ2944652FDOQ2944652

Ruedi Stoop, Martin Schüle

Publication date: 2 September 2015

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Cellular automata are both computational and dynamical systems. We give a complete classification of the dynamic behaviour of elementary cellular automata (ECA) in terms of fundamental dynamic system notions such as sensitivity and chaoticity. The "complex" ECA emerge to be sensitive, but not chaotic and not eventually weakly periodic. Based on this classification, we conjecture that elementary cellular automata capable of carrying out complex computations, such as needed for Turing-universality, are at the "edge of chaos".


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2080




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