IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
Online ISSN : 1745-1361
Print ISSN : 0916-8532
Special Section on Foundations of Computer Science
On the Non-existance of Rotation-Symmetric von Neumann Neighbor Number-Conserving Cellular Automata of Which the State Number is Less than Four
Naonori TANIMOTOKatsunobu IMAIChuzo IWAMOTOKenichi MORITA
Author information
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

2009 Volume E92.D Issue 2 Pages 255-257

Details
Abstract

A number-conserving cellular automaton (NCCA) is a cellular automaton such that all states of cells are represented by integers and the total number of its configuration is conserved throughout its computing process. In constrast to normal cellular automata, there are infinitely many assignments of states for NCCAs with a constant state number. As for von Neumann neighbor(radius one) NCCAs with rotation-symmetry, a local function can be represented by summation of four binary functions. In this paper, we show that the minimum size of state set of rotation-symmetric von Neumann neighbor NCCA is 5 by using this representation.

Content from these authors
© 2009 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Previous article Next article
feedback
Top