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    A Garden of Eden theorem for Anosov diffeomorphisms on tori

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    Let ff be an Anosov diffeomorphism of the nn-dimensional torus Tn{\mathbb{T}}^n and τ\tau a continuous self-mapping of Tn{\mathbb{T}}^n commuting with ff. We prove that τ\tau is surjective if and only if the restriction of τ\tau to each homoclinicity class of ff is injective.Comment: 9 page

    Post-surjectivity and balancedness of cellular automata over groups

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    We discuss cellular automata over arbitrary finitely generated groups. We call a cellular automaton post-surjective if for any pair of asymptotic configurations, every pre-image of one is asymptotic to a pre-image of the other. The well known dual concept is pre-injectivity: a cellular automaton is pre-injective if distinct asymptotic configurations have distinct images. We prove that pre-injective, post-surjective cellular automata are reversible. Moreover, on sofic groups, post-surjectivity alone implies reversibility. We also prove that reversible cellular automata over arbitrary groups are balanced, that is, they preserve the uniform measure on the configuration space.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX "dmtcs-episciences" document class. Final version for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Prepared according to the editor's request
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