The dynamics of cellular automata in shift-invariant topologies

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Bienvenu;Mathieu Sablik

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale, CNRS & Universitéé de Provence, Marseille, France;ENS Lyon, Unité de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, Lyon, France

  • Venue:
  • DLT'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Developments in language theory
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We study the dynamics of cellular automata, and more specifically their transitivity and expansivity, when the set of configurations is endowed with a shift-invariant (pseudo-)distance. We first give an original proof of the non-transitivity of cellular automata when the set of configurations is endowed with the Besicovitch pseudo-distance. We then show that the Besicovitch pseudo-distance induces a distance on the set of shift-invariant measures and on the whole space of measures, and we prove that in these spaces also, cellular automata cannot be expansive nor transitive.