A perturbed cellular automaton with two phase transitions for the ergodicity

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Autori principali: Marsan, Hugo, Sablik, Mathieu, Törmä, Ilkka
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author Marsan, Hugo
Sablik, Mathieu
Törmä, Ilkka
author_facet Marsan, Hugo
Sablik, Mathieu
Törmä, Ilkka
contents The positive rates conjecture states that a one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton (PCA) with strictly positive transition rates must be ergodic. The conjecture has been refuted by Gács, whose counterexample is a cellular automaton that is non-ergodic under uniform random noise with sufficiently small rate. For all known counterexamples, non-ergodicity has been proved under small enough rates. Conversely, all cellular automata are ergodic with sufficiently high-rate noise. No other types of phase transitions of ergodicity are known, and the behavior of known counterexamples under intermediate noise rates is unknown. We present an example of a cellular automaton with two phase transitions. Using Gács's result as a black box, we construct a cellular automaton that is ergodic under small noise rates, non-ergodic for slightly higher rates, and again ergodic for rates close to 1.
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spellingShingle A perturbed cellular automaton with two phase transitions for the ergodicity
Marsan, Hugo
Sablik, Mathieu
Törmä, Ilkka
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Dynamical Systems
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60K35, 60J05, 37B15, 37A50
The positive rates conjecture states that a one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton (PCA) with strictly positive transition rates must be ergodic. The conjecture has been refuted by Gács, whose counterexample is a cellular automaton that is non-ergodic under uniform random noise with sufficiently small rate. For all known counterexamples, non-ergodicity has been proved under small enough rates. Conversely, all cellular automata are ergodic with sufficiently high-rate noise. No other types of phase transitions of ergodicity are known, and the behavior of known counterexamples under intermediate noise rates is unknown. We present an example of a cellular automaton with two phase transitions. Using Gács's result as a black box, we construct a cellular automaton that is ergodic under small noise rates, non-ergodic for slightly higher rates, and again ergodic for rates close to 1.
title A perturbed cellular automaton with two phase transitions for the ergodicity
topic Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Dynamical Systems
Probability
60K35, 60J05, 37B15, 37A50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03485