Linear Cellular Automata with Multiple State Variables

  • Authors:
  • Jarkko Kari

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STACS '00 Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We investigate a finite state analog of subband coding, based on linear Cellular Automata with multiple state variables. We show that such a CA is injective (surjective) if and only if the determinant of its transition matrix is an injective (surjective, respectively) single variable automaton.We prove that in the one-dimensional case every injective automaton can be factored into a sequence of elementary automata, defined by elementary transition matrices. Finally, we investigate the factoring problem in higher dimensional spaces.