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Hardness of Approximation for Langton?s Ant on a Twisted Torus

Takeo Hagiwara and Tatsuie Tsukiji    

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Langton?s ant is a deterministic cellular automaton studied in many fields, artificial life, computational complexity, cryptography, emergent dynamics, Lorents lattice gas, and so forth, motivated by the hardness of predicting the ant?s macroscopic behavior from an initial microscopic configuration. Gajardo, Moreira, and Goles (2002) proved that Langton?s ant is PTIME -hard for reachability. On a twisted torus, we demonstrate that it is PSPACE hard to determine whether the ant will ever visit almost all vertices or nearly none of them.

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