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Topological properties of cellular automata on trees
We prove that there do not exist positively expansive cellular automata
defined on the full k-ary tree shift (for k>=2). Moreover, we investigate some
topological properties of these automata and their relationships, namely
permutivity, surjectivity, preinjectivity, right-closingness and openness.Comment: In Proceedings AUTOMATA&JAC 2012, arXiv:1208.249
The Computational Complexity of Symbolic Dynamics at the Onset of Chaos
In a variety of studies of dynamical systems, the edge of order and chaos has
been singled out as a region of complexity. It was suggested by Wolfram, on the
basis of qualitative behaviour of cellular automata, that the computational
basis for modelling this region is the Universal Turing Machine. In this paper,
following a suggestion of Crutchfield, we try to show that the Turing machine
model may often be too powerful as a computational model to describe the
boundary of order and chaos. In particular we study the region of the first
accumulation of period doubling in unimodal and bimodal maps of the interval,
from the point of view of language theory. We show that in relation to the
``extended'' Chomsky hierarchy, the relevant computational model in the
unimodal case is the nested stack automaton or the related indexed languages,
while the bimodal case is modeled by the linear bounded automaton or the
related context-sensitive languages.Comment: 1 reference corrected, 1 reference added, minor changes in body of
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Combinatorial models of expanding dynamical systems
We define iterated monodromy groups of more general structures than partial
self-covering. This generalization makes it possible to define a natural notion
of a combinatorial model of an expanding dynamical system. We prove that a
naturally defined "Julia set" of the generalized dynamical systems depends only
on the associated iterated monodromy group. We show then that the Julia set of
every expanding dynamical system is an inverse limit of simplicial complexes
constructed by inductive cut-and-paste rules.Comment: The new version differs substantially from the first one. Many parts
are moved to other (mostly future) papers, the main open question of the
first version is solve
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