On Some Topological Properties of Linear Cellular Automata

  • Authors:
  • Luciano Margara

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • MFCS '99 Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We study two dynamical properties of linear D-dimensional cellular automata over Zm namely, denseness of periodic points and topological mixing. For what concerns denseness of periodic points, we complete the work initiated in [9], [3], and [2] by proving that a linear cellular automata has dense periodic points over the entire space of configurations if and only if it is surjective (as conjectured in [2]). For nonsurjective linear CA we give a complete characterization of the subspace where periodic points are dense. For what concerns topological mixing, we prove that this property is equivalent to transitivity and then easily checkable. Finally, we claissify linear cellular automata according to the definition of chaos given by Devaney in [8].