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On a Constraint on Invariant Measures of Certain Cellular Automata

Matan Tal
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In [7], a constraint on invariant measures of bi-permutative cellular automata has been observed: fixed values at the positive indices determine almost-surely a uniform conditional probability on the subset of values of positive conditional probability at the zero index. When the alphabet is a finite group and the automaton is multiplication of two neighbors, that set is in fact a coset of some subgroup. In the present paper, we strengthen the formulations in [7] and investigate further the implications of this constraint. In the finite group case mentioned above, relations between some attributes of the group structure and the invariant measures are examined. We also inspect a factor, with respect to the shift, that this constraint induces, and analyze the special case in which it has zero measure-theoretical entropy, thus observing an interplay between existence of zero entropy invariant measures on that factor and existence of positive entropy measures corresponding to them on the original system. Then, we leave the setting of bi-permutative cellular automata and generalize our results to a wider class which we named RLP subshifts. The peculiar situation is that although this class may be much larger than the class of bi-permutative cellular automata, we were able to prove only for essentially one other example - the symbolic coding of the times 2 times 3 system on the circle (and its generalizations) - that it belongs to it.

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Matan Tal. 2026-07-08. On a Constraint on Invariant Measures of Certain Cellular Automata. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10124

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