A weakly universal cellular automaton on the pentagrid with two states (1512.07988v2)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove that there is a weakly universal cellular automaton on the pentagrid with two states. This paper improves in some sense a previous result with three states. Both results make use of \textit{`a la Moore} neighbourhood. However, the result with three states is rotation invariant while that with two states is not. In both cases, at each step of the computation, the set of non quiescent states has always infinitely many cycles.