A Study of Non-uniform Cellular Automata with Fully Asynchronous Updating : First Results on the Non-convergent Cases
摘要
This work investigates finite non-uniform asynchronous cellular automata (NUACAs) under periodic boundary condition, following fully asynchronous update scheme. Based on the nature of recurrent configurations, these NUACAs are categorized into convergent, strongly non-convergent and weakly non-convergent. Furthermore, the convergent ACA rules are ranked from 1 to 8 based on the proportion of active RMTs. It is shown that NUACAs are strongly non-convergent even if they are composed by solely convergent rules. Moreover, this work identifies the minimal proportion of ranks 1 and 2 rules necessary to generate strongly non-convergent NUACAs.