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- From: achim@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de (Achim Flammenkamp)
- Subject: Two questions to life stochastics
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.153716.10856@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:37:16 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld
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- I have two questions concerning the behaviour or random seeded life areas:
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- 1) Assume you have an NxN area seeded with some fixed probability per cell
- (e.g. 1/3) to alive/death status. There exists the average waiting time T
- depending on N that the area reaches its "balance configuration". My
- question is: Does limit T(N) exists if N tends to infinity ? (I think no,
- but I see no simple argument for my conjecture).
- 2) Assume you randomly initialize with fixed probability per cell (e.g. 1/3) a
- large area. Compare this configuration with the same but changed one cell.
- Now run both configurations until they reach their "balance configuration".
- How big is the average area on which these two "balance configurations"
- differ ? (I think it exists and maybe contain about some million cells).
-
- achim
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