Networks of Binary Necklaces Induced by Elementary Cellular Automata Rules

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Autores principales: Frati, Lapo, Petak, Csenge, Cheney, Nick
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author Frati, Lapo
Petak, Csenge
Cheney, Nick
author_facet Frati, Lapo
Petak, Csenge
Cheney, Nick
contents Elementary cellular automata deterministically map a binary sequence to another using simple local rules. Visualizing the structure of this mapping is difficult because the number of nodes (i.e. possible binary sequences) grows exponentially. If periodic boundary conditions are used, rotation of a sequence and rule application to that sequence commute. This allows us to recover the rotational invariance property of loops and to reduce the number of nodes by only considering binary necklaces, the equivalence class of n-character strings taking all rotations as equivalent. Combining together many equivalent histories reveals the general structure of the rule, both visually and computationally. In this work, we investigate the structure of necklace-networks induced by the 256 Elementary Cellular Automata rules and show how their network structure change as the length of necklaces grow.
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spellingShingle Networks of Binary Necklaces Induced by Elementary Cellular Automata Rules
Frati, Lapo
Petak, Csenge
Cheney, Nick
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Elementary cellular automata deterministically map a binary sequence to another using simple local rules. Visualizing the structure of this mapping is difficult because the number of nodes (i.e. possible binary sequences) grows exponentially. If periodic boundary conditions are used, rotation of a sequence and rule application to that sequence commute. This allows us to recover the rotational invariance property of loops and to reduce the number of nodes by only considering binary necklaces, the equivalence class of n-character strings taking all rotations as equivalent. Combining together many equivalent histories reveals the general structure of the rule, both visually and computationally. In this work, we investigate the structure of necklace-networks induced by the 256 Elementary Cellular Automata rules and show how their network structure change as the length of necklaces grow.
title Networks of Binary Necklaces Induced by Elementary Cellular Automata Rules
topic Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04780