The Game of Life and the Prime Number Theorem

Speaker:

Gunther Cornelissen

Affiliation:

Utrecht University

Date:

Tue, 06/05/2025 - 15:00 - 15:25

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Parent event:

Conference on "Asymptotic Counting and L-Functions" [3]

We explain a curious coincidence between fixed points of certain cellular automata and of certain polynomial iterates, and show how this provides an analogue of the Prime Number Theorem (joint work with Jakub Byszewski).