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</script>The virtual ant introduced by C. Langton has an interesting behavior, which has been studied in several contexts. Here we give a construction to calculate any boolean circuit with the trajectory of a single ant. This proves the P-hardness of the system and implies, through the simulation of one dimensional cellular automata and Turing machines, the universality of the ant and the undecidability of some problems associated to it.
8 pages, 9 figures. Complements at http://www.dim.uchile.cl/~agajardo/langton
Cellular automata (computational aspects), P-hardness, Virtual ant, Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity, Applied Mathematics, Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG), FOS: Physical sciences, Complexity, Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics, Universality, Artificial life, Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.), Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Nonlinear Sciences - Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Cellular automata (computational aspects), P-hardness, Virtual ant, Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity, Applied Mathematics, Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG), FOS: Physical sciences, Complexity, Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics, Universality, Artificial life, Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.), Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Nonlinear Sciences - Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
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