Complete characterization of structure of rule 54

Martinez, Genaro J.; Adamatzky, Andrew; McIntosh, Harold V.

Abstract

The dynamics of rule 54 one-dimensional two-state cellular automaton (CA) are a discrete analog of a space-time dynamics of excitations in nonlinear active medium with mutual inhibition. A cell switches its state 0 to state 1 if one of its two neighbors is in state 1 (propagation of a perturbation) and a cell remains in state 1 only if its two neighbors are in state 0. A lateral inhibition is because a 1-state neighbor causes a 1-state cell to switch to state 0. The rule produces a rich spectrum of space-time dynamics, including gliders and glider guns just from four primitive gliders. We construct a catalogue of gliders and describe them by tiles. We calculate a subset of regular expressions $\Psi_{R54}$ to encode gliders. The regular expressions are derived from de Bruijn diagrams, tile-based representation of gliders, and cycle diagrams sometimes. We construct an abstract machine that recognizes regular expressions of gliders in rule 54 and validate $\Psi_{R54}$. We also propose a way to code initial configurations of gliders to depict any type of collision between the gliders and explore self-organization of gliders, formation of larger tiles, and soliton-like interactions of gliders and computable devices.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 8, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 6, 2019
• Journal: Complex Systems
• Print ISSN: 0891-2513
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 259-293
• Keywords: elementary cellular automata, rule 54, complex systems, gliders, collisions, regular language
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/810658
• Publisher URL: http://www.complex-systems.com/abstracts/v23_i03_a04.html
• Related Public URLs: http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/genaro/Papers/Papers_on_CA.html