DMTCS Proceedings, 2007 Conference on Analysis of Algorithms, AofA 07

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Asynchronous Cellular Automata and Brownian Motion

Philippe Chassaing, Lucas Gerin

Abstract


This paper deals with some very simple interacting particle systems, elementary cellular automata, in the fully asynchronous dynamics: at each time step, a cell is randomly picked, and updated. When the initial configuration is simple, we describe the asymptotic behavior of the random walks performed by the borders of the black/white regions. Following a classification introduced by Fatès et al., we show that four kinds of asymptotic behavior arise, two of them being related to Brownian motion.

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