Undecidable Properties of Limit Set Dynamics of Cellular Automata

dc.creatorDi Lena, Pietro
dc.creatorMargara, Luciano
dc.date2009-02-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:39:29Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:39:29Z
dc.descriptionCellular Automata (CA) are discrete dynamical systems and an abstract model of parallel computation. The limit set of a cellular automaton is its maximal topological attractor. A well know result, due to Kari, says that all nontrivial properties of limit sets are undecidable. In this paper we consider properties of limit set dynamics, i.e. properties of the dynamics of Cellular Automata restricted to their limit sets. There can be no equivalent of Kari's Theorem for limit set dynamics. Anyway we show that there is a large class of undecidable properties of limit set dynamics, namely all properties of limit set dynamics which imply stability or the existence of a unique subshift attractor. As a consequence we have that it is undecidable whether the cellular automaton map restricted to the limit set is the identity, closing, injective, expansive, positively expansive, transitive.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1441
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1441
dc.identifier26th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science STACS 2009 (2009) 337-348
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/219127
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.titleUndecidable Properties of Limit Set Dynamics of Cellular Automata
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