Exact discretization of 3-speed rational signal machines - Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
Conference Papers Year : 2016

Exact discretization of 3-speed rational signal machines

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Cellular Automata (CA) operate in discrete time and space whereas Signal Machines (SM) have been developed as a continuous idealization of CA capturing the key concept of signals/particles and collisions. Inside a Euclidean space, dimensionless signals move freely; collisions are instantaneous. Today's issue is the automatic generation of a CA mimicking a given SM. On the one hand, many ad hoc manual conversions exist. On the other hand, some irrational or 4+-speed SM exhibit Zeno-like behaviors/space-time compression or rely on information being locally unbounded, both being incompatible with CA. This article provides a solution to automatically generate an exactly mimicking CA for a restricted class of SM: the ones that uses only three rational speeds, and rational initial positions. In these SM, signals are always contained inside a regular mesh. The discretization brings forth the corresponding discrete mesh. The simulation is valid on any infinite run and preserves the relative position of collisions.
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hal-01298378 , version 1 (13-01-2017)

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Tom Besson, Jérôme Durand-Lose. Exact discretization of 3-speed rational signal machines. 22th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (AUTOMATA), Jun 2016, Zurich, Switzerland. pp.63-76, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-39300-1_6⟩. ⟨hal-01298378⟩
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