Regular Article: Equivalence Relations on Finite Dynamical Systems

  • Authors:
  • Reinhard Laubenbacher;Bodo Pareigis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003f1reinhard@nmsu.eduf1;Mathematisches Institut, Universität München, Theresienstr. 39, D-80333, München, Germanyf2pareigis@rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.def2

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper is motivated by the theory of sequential dynamical systems, developed as a basis for a theory of computer simulation. We study finite dynamical systems on binary strings, that is, iterates of functions from {0,1}^n to itself. We introduce several equivalence relations on systems and study the resulting equivalence classes. The case of two-dimensional systems is studied in detail.