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Stationary measures and phase transition for a class of Probabilistic Cellular Automata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Paolo Dai Pra
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Applicata, Università di Padova, Via Belzoni 7, 35131 Padova, Italy; daipra@math.unipd.it.
Pierre-Yves Louis
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilités, FRE 2222 du CNRS, UFR de Mathématiques, Université Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve-d'Ascq Cedex, France; louis@lps.univ-lille1.fr.
Sylvie Rœlly
Affiliation:
Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, Mohrenstraße 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany; roelly@wias-berlin.de. : CMAP, UMR 7641 du CNRS, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France.
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Abstract

We discuss various properties of Probabilistic Cellular Automata, such as the structure of the set of stationary measures and multiplicity of stationary measures (or phase transition) for reversible models.

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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2002

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