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Additive automata on graphs. (English) Zbl 0679.68107

Summary: We study cellular automata with additive rules on finite undirected graphs. The addition is carried out in some finite abelian monoid. We investigate the problem of deciding whether a given configuration has a predecessor. Depending on the underlying monoid this problem is solvable in polynomial time or NP-complete. Furthermore, we study the global reversibility of cellular graph automata based on addition modulo two. We give a linear time algorithm to decide reversibility of unicyclic graphs.

MSC:

68Q80 Cellular automata (computational aspects)
68R10 Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science
68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity