Density of periodic points, invariant measures and almost equicontinuous points of cellular automata

Revisiting the notion of μ-almost equicontinuous cellular automata introduced by R. Gilman, we show that the sequence of image measures of a shift ergodic measure μ by iterations of such automata converges in Cesàro mean to an invariant measure μc. Moreover the dynamical system (cellular automaton F, invariant measure μc) has still the μc-almost equicontinuity property and the set of periodic points is dense in the topological support of the measure μc. We also show that the density of periodic points in the topological support of a measure μ occurs for each μ-almost equicontinuous cellular automaton when μ is an invariant and shift ergodic measure. Finally using most of these results we give a non-trivial example of a couple (μ-equicontinuous cellular automaton F, shift and F-invariant measure μ) such that the restriction of F to the topological support of μ has no equicontinuous points.