• Title of article

    Impartial games emulating one-dimensional cellular automata and undecidability

  • Author/Authors

    Larsson، نويسنده , , Urban، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2013
  • Pages
    15
  • From page
    1116
  • To page
    1130
  • Abstract
    We study two-player impartial games whose outcomes emulate two-state one-dimensional cellular automata, such as Wolframʼs rules 60 and 110. Given an initial string consisting of a central data pattern and periodic left and right patterns, the rule 110 cellular automaton was recently proved Turing-complete by Matthew Cook. Hence, many questions regarding its behavior are algorithmically undecidable. We show that similar questions are undecidable for our rule 110 games.
  • Keywords
    Cellular automaton , Impartial game , Rule 110 , Take-away game , undecidability
  • Journal title
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Serial Year
    2013
  • Journal title
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Record number

    1531904