Topological Conjugacy Classification of Elementary Cellular Automata with Majority Memory

Abstract

The topological conjugacy classification of elementary cellular automata with majority memory (ECAMs) is studied under the framework of symbolic dynamics. In the light of the conventional symbolic sequence space, the compact symbolic vector space is identified with a feasible metric and topology. A slight change is introduced to present that all global maps of ECAMs are continuous functions, thereafter generating the compact dynamical systems. By exploiting two fundamental homeomorphisms in symbolic vector space, all ECAMs are furthermore grouped into 88 equivalence classes in the sense that different mappings in the same global equivalence are mutually topologically conjugate.