Additive cellular automata and algebraic series (Q688164)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 440337
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Additive cellular automata and algebraic series
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 440337

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    Additive cellular automata and algebraic series (English)
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    1 December 1993
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    A class of one-dimensional cellular automata in which the value of each cell depends in additive manner of its neighbours is studied. Generating series are used to describe the behavior of a cell in time and their basic properties are proved. Also it is shown that proper generating functions can be computed directly in the cases where the values of a cell are elements of a finite field or are complex numbers. In the second part of the paper a number of examples is given relating additive cellular automata and some ``automatic sequences'' like paper folding sequences, or Catalan or Motzkin numbers.
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    algebraic series
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    Catalan numbers
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    automatic sequences
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    cellular automata
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    generating functions
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    paper folding sequences
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    Motzkin numbers
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