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On forcing functions in Kauffman's random Boolean networks

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The phase transition between frozen and chaotic behavior in Kauffman's cellular automata on a nearest neighbor square lattice does not agree with the percolation threshold of the forcing functions.

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Stauffer, D. On forcing functions in Kauffman's random Boolean networks. J Stat Phys 46, 789–794 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01013386

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