Title
Stability of cellular automata trajectories revisited: branching walks and Lyapunov profiles
Abstract
We study non-equilibrium defect accumulation dynamics on a cellular automaton trajectory: a branching walk process in which a defect creates a successor on any neighborhood site whose update it affects. On an infinite lattice, defects accumulate at different exponential rates in different directions, giving rise to the Lyapunov profile. This profile quantifies instability of a cellular automaton evolution and is connected to the theory of large deviations. We rigorously and empirically study Lyapunov profiles generated from random initial states. We also introduce explicit and computationally feasible variational methods to compute the Lyapunov profiles for periodic configurations, thus developing an analog of Floquet theory for cellular automata.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-016-9307-8
J. Nonlinear Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Asymptotic shape,Branching walk,Cellular automaton,Doubly periodic configuration,Large deviations,Lyapunov exponent,Percolation,Stability,60K35,37B15
Lyapunov function,Cellular automaton,Mathematical analysis,Large deviations theory,Block cellular automaton,Periodic graph (geometry),Stochastic cellular automaton,Lyapunov exponent,Mathematics,Floquet theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
26
5
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan M. Baetens1267.65
Janko Gravner243.64