Cellular Automata and Groups

Cellular Automata.- Residually Finite Groups.- Surjunctive Groups.- Amenable Groups.- The Garden of Eden Theorem.- Finitely Generated Amenable Groups.- Local Embeddability and Sofic Groups.- Linear Cellular Automata.- Nets and the Tychonoff Product Theorem.- Uniform Structures.- Symmetric Groups.- Free Groups.- Inductive Limits and Projective Limits of Groups.- The Banach-Alaoglu Theorem.- The Markov-Kakutani Fixed Point Theorem.- The Hall Harem Theorem.- Complements of Functional Analysis.- Ultrafilters.

From the reviews:

"The book under review is currently the only text of comparable size and level which devotes its attention to the general case of cellular automata on arbitrary groups ... . The book is a great read and a great resource. ... The basic material is supported by a trove of exercises (over 300) and notes at the end of each chapter, and the book ends with a selection of 17 open problems." (Zoran Sunic, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 51 (2), April, 2014)

"An excellent introduction to the subject of cellular automata on groups, complete with copious exercises. ... I like this book very much. The authors have set out to write a self-contained account, and I think they have succeeded. ... This is done using conventional notation and without idiosyncrasy, which to mind is important for any reader wanting to supplement their reading using other sources. All this is done whilst presenting some very recent material - a real achievement." (Charles Eaton, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 97 (539), July, 2013)

"The book explores deep connections between two seemingly unrelated mathematical notions, both of which were introduced by J. von Neumann in the first half of the 20th century ... . The book is well written and develops very carefully the state of the art of the material sketched above ... . It is essentially self-contained ... and each chapter contains informative historical notes and a long list of instructive exercises." (K. Auinger, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 164 (3), November, 2011)

"This book should be considered as self-contained, in the sense that all the concepts used are developed at length, together with a large choice of exercises. ... should make an important contribution to a field in rapid development, and which is at the intersection of algebra, analysis and computer science. It is carefully written, and is especially recommended to graduate students andresearchers, who will find