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Damage spreading in a gradient

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We propose a new method of analyzing the frozen-chaotic transition in a cellular automaton by propagating damage in a gradient. We obtain estimations forp c and for the critical exponents for the Kauffman model and the mixture of OR and XOR rules.

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da Silva, L.R., Herrmann, H.J. Damage spreading in a gradient. J Stat Phys 52, 463–470 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01016427

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