2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Linear Algebra Based Bounds for One-Dimensional Cellular Automata
verfasst von : Jarkko Kari
Erschienen in: Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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One possible complexity measure for a cellular automaton is the size of its neighborhood. If a cellular automaton is reversible with a small neighborhood, the inverse automaton may need a much larger neighborhood. Our interest is to find good upper bounds for the size of this inverse neighborhood. It turns out that a linear algebra approach provides better bounds than any known combinatorial methods. We also consider cellular automata that are not surjective. In this case there must exist so-called orphans, finite patterns without a pre-image. The length of the shortest orphan measures the degree of non-surjectiveness of the map. Again, a linear algebra approach provides better bounds on this length than known combinatorial methods. We also use linear algebra to bound the minimum lengths of any diamond and any word with a non-balanced number of pre-images. These both exist when the cellular automaton in question is not surjective. All our results deal with one-dimensional cellular automata. Undecidability results imply that in higher dimensional cases no computable upper bound exists for any of the considered quantities.