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- From: burt@cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory.cell-automata
- Subject: commuting CA rules
- Keywords: cellular automata, commutation of rules
- Message-ID: <2468@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:58:08 GMT
- Organization: Athabasca University
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- Given a global CA rule F:E-->E it is possible to find a set of
- non-linear Diophantine equations whose solution set determines all
- rules (of a given neighborhood size) which commute with F.
- (Commutation of Cellular Automata Rules, Burton Voorhees, preprint)
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- Is anybody aware of a use for this information, other than as a bit
- of interesting theory?
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- Burton Voorhees
- Faculty of Science
- Athabasca University
- Box 10,000
- Athabasca, AB
- CANADA T0G 2R0
- burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca
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