DOAJ Open Access 2011

Conservation Laws and Invariant Measures in Surjective Cellular Automata

Jarkko Kari Siamak Taati

Abstrak

We discuss a close link between two seemingly different topics studied in the cellular automata literature: additive conservation laws and invariant probability measures. We provide an elementary proof of a simple correspondence between invariant full-support Bernoulli measures and interaction-free conserved quantities in the case of one-dimensional surjective cellular automata. We also discuss a generalization of this fact to Markov measures and higher-range conservation laws in arbitrary dimension. As a corollary, we show that the uniform Bernoulli measure is the only shift-invariant, full-support Markov measure that is invariant under a strongly transitive cellular automaton.

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Jarkko Kari

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Siamak Taati

Format Sitasi

Kari, J., Taati, S. (2011). Conservation Laws and Invariant Measures in Surjective Cellular Automata. https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.2968

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Informasi Jurnal
Tahun Terbit
2011
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DOAJ
DOI
10.46298/dmtcs.2968
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Open Access ✓