Graph and wreath products of cellular automata

Ville Salo

Published 2020-12-18Version 1

We prove that the set of subgroups of the automorphism group of a two-sided full shift is closed under graph products. We introduce the notion of an Aithful group action, and show that when A is a finite abelian group and G is a group of cellular automata whose action is Aithful, the wreath product A \wr G embeds in the automorphism group of a full shift. We show that all free abelian groups and free groups admit Aithful cellular automata actions. In the one-sided case, we prove variants of these result with reasonable alphabet blow-ups.