Show that for one-dimensional cellular automata, CA-Predecessor is in P. Hint: think about using recursion on a one-bit-shorter prefix of the input configuration. Suppose that the CA follows the rule that the configuration shrinks by 2 cells on each update, since the leftmost cell has no left neighbor and the rightmost cell has no right neighbor. Therefore, on input a configuration of length n, we are asking whether there is a predecessor configuration of length n + 2.  By the way 2^n is not polynomial at all.

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Show that for one-dimensional cellular automata, CA-Predecessor is in P.

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think about using recursion on a one-bit-shorter prefix of the input configuration.
Suppose that the CA follows the rule that the configuration shrinks by 2 cells on each update, since
the leftmost cell has no left neighbor and the rightmost cell has no right neighbor. Therefore, on
input a configuration of length n, we are asking whether there is a predecessor configuration of
length n + 2. 

By the way 2^n is not polynomial at all.

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