Sequentializing cellular automata




Jarkko Kari, Ville Salo, Thomas Worsch

PublisherSpringer

2019

Natural Computing

1572-9796

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-019-09745-7

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/40800741



We study the problem of sequentializing a cellular automaton without introducing any intermediate states, and only performing reversible permutations on the tape. We give a decidable characterization of cellular automata which can be written as a single sweep of a bijective rule from left to right over an infinite tape. Such cellular automata are necessarily left-closing, and they move at least as much information to the left as they move information to the right.


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