Number conserving cellular automata II: dynamics

In this second part, we study the dynamics of the number conserving cellular automata. We give a classification which focuses on pattern divergence and chaoticity. Moreover we prove that in the case of number-conserving cellular automata, surjectivity is equivalent to regularity. As a byproduct we obtain a strong characterization of the class of cellular automata with bounded evolutions on finite configurations.

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