Cellular Automata and Groups

Cellular automata were introduced in the first half of the last century by John von Neumann who used them as theoretical models for self-reproducing machines. The authors present a self-contained exposition of the theory of cellular automata on groups and explore its deep connections with recent dev...

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Main Authors: Ceccherini-Silberstein, Tullio. (Author), Coornaert, Michel. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Series:Springer Monographs in Mathematics,
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505 0 # |a Preface -- 1.Cellular automata -- 2.Residually finite groups -- 3.Surjunctive groups -- 4.Amenable groups -- 5.The Garden of Eden theorem -- 6.Finitely generated amenable groups -- 7.Local embeddability and sofic groups -- 8.Linear cellular automata -- Appendices: A.Nets and the Tychonoff product theorem -- B.Uniform structures -- C.Symmetric groups -- D.Free groups -- E.Inductive limits and projective limits of groups -- F.The Banach-Alaoglu theorem -- G.The Markov-Kakutani fixed point theorem -- H.The Hall harem Theorem -- I.Complements of functional analysis -- J.Ultrafilters -- Open problems -- References -- List of symbols -- Index. 
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