Today, the 1st of March 2018, I gave what ended up being the first of a series of Theory Lunch talks about subadditive functions. The idea is to give an introduction to the subject, following Hille’s and Lind and Marcus’s textbooks, and stating an important theorem by the Hungarian mathematician Mihály Fekete; then, discuss some extensions to the case of many variables and their implications in the theory of cellular automata, referring to two of my papers from 2008, one of them with Tommaso Toffoli and Patrizia Mentrasti.
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