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Attractors in cellular automata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Mike Hurley
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Abstract

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We give a classification theorem for cellular automata, showing that either there is a minimal quasi-attractor whose basin has full measure, or else no chain component has a basin with positive measure.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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