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Towards the Frontier between Decidability and Undecidability for Hyperbolic Cellular Automata

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In this paper, we look at two ways to implement one dimensional cellular automata into hyperbolic cellular automata in three contexts: the pentagrid, the heptagrid and the dodecagrid, these tilings being classically denoted by {5,4}, {7,3} and {5,3,4} respectively. As an application, this may give a hint for the boundary between decidable and undecidable problems for hyperbolic cellular automata.

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Margenstern, M. (2010). Towards the Frontier between Decidability and Undecidability for Hyperbolic Cellular Automata. In: Kučera, A., Potapov, I. (eds) Reachability Problems. RP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6227. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15349-5_8

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