Glossary Configuration space Set of all bisequences of symbols from the alphabet A of N symbols, A = {0, 1, . . . , N − 1}, denoted by A Z . Elements of A Z are called configurations and denoted by bold lowercase letters: x, y, etc. Block or word A finite sequence of symbols of the alphabet A . Set of all blocks of length n is denoted by A n , while the sent of all possible blocks of all lengths by A . Blocks are denoted by bold lowercase letters a, b, c, etc. Individual symbols of the block b are denoted by indexed italic form of the same letter, b = b 1 , b 2 , . . . , b n . To make formulae more compact, commas are sometimes dropped (if no confusion arises), and we simply write b = b 1 b 2 . . . b n . Cylinder set For a block b of length n, the cylinder set generated by b and anchored at i is the subset of configurations such that symbols at positions from i to i + n − 1 are fixed and equal to symbols in the block b, while the remaining symbols are arbitrary. Denoted by [b] i = {x ∈ A Z : x [i,i+n) = b}. Cellular automaton In this article, cellular automaton is understood as a map F in the space of shift-invariant probability measures over the configuration space A Z . To define F, two ingredients are needed, a positive integer r called radius and a function w : A × A 2r+1 → [0, 1], whose values are called transition probabilities. The image of a measure µ under the action of F is then defined by probabilities of cylinder sets, (F µ)([a] i ) = ∑ b∈A |a|+2r w(a|b)µ([b] i−r