Martin Kutrib ; Jonas Lefèvre ; Andreas Malcher - The Size of One-Way Cellular Automata

dmtcs:2758 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2010, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AL, Automata 2010 - 16th Intl. Workshop on CA and DCS - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.2758
The Size of One-Way Cellular AutomataArticle

Authors: Martin Kutrib 1; Jonas Lefèvre 2; Andreas Malcher 1

We investigate the descriptional complexity of basic operations on real-time one-way cellular automata with an unbounded as well well as a fixed number of cells. The size of the automata is measured by their number of states. Most of the bounds shown are tight in the order of magnitude, that is, the sizes resulting from the effective constructions given are optimal with respect to worst case complexity. Conversely, these bounds also show the maximal savings of size that can be achieved when a given minimal real-time OCA is decomposed into smaller ones with respect to a given operation. From this point of view the natural problem of whether a decomposition can algorithmically be solved is studied. It turns out that all decomposition problems considered are algorithmically unsolvable. Therefore, a very restricted cellular model is studied in the second part of the paper, namely, real-time one-way cellular automata with a fixed number of cells. These devices are known to capture the regular languages and, thus, all the problems being undecidable for general one-way cellular automata become decidable. It is shown that these decision problems are $\textsf{NLOGSPACE}$-complete and thus share the attractive computational complexity of deterministic finite automata. Furthermore, the state complexity of basic operations for these devices is studied and upper and lower bounds are given.


Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AL, Automata 2010 - 16th Intl. Workshop on CA and DCS
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2010
Imported on: January 31, 2017
Keywords: cellular automata,state complexity,descriptional complexity,formal languages,decidability,[INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM],[MATH.MATH-DS] Mathematics [math]/Dynamical Systems [math.DS],[NLIN.NLIN-CG] Nonlinear Sciences [physics]/Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases [nlin.CG],[MATH.MATH-CO] Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO]

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