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Surjunctivity and Reversibility of Cellular Automata over Concrete Categories

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Trends in Harmonic Analysis

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Following ideas developed by Misha Gromov, we investigate surjunctivity and reversibility properties of cellular automata defined over certain concrete categories.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università del Sannio, C.so Garibaldi 107, 82100, Benevento, Italy

    Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein

  2. Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, UMR 7501, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS, 7 rue René-Descartes, 67000, Strasbourg, France

    Michel Coornaert

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Ceccherini-Silberstein, T., Coornaert, M. (2013). Surjunctivity and Reversibility of Cellular Automata over Concrete Categories. In: Picardello, M. (eds) Trends in Harmonic Analysis. Springer INdAM Series, vol 3. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2853-1_6

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