On the Undecidability of Attractor Properties for Cellular Automata

  • Authors:
  • Pietro Di Lena;Luciano Margara

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd.) Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni, 40127 Bologna, Italy. dilena@cs.unibo.it;Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni, 40127 Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae - From Physics to Computer Science: to Gianpiero Cattaneo for his 70th birthday
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The attractor properties in Cellular Automata dynamical systems have been extensively investigated and well characterized. We consider here two attractor classification for Cellular Automata and we prove the computational undecidability of some questions related to such classifications.