%0 Journal Article %T On a characterization of locally finite groups in terms of linear cellular automata %A Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein %A Michel Coornaert %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X We prove that a group $G$ is locally finite if and only if every surjective real (or complex) linear cellular automaton with finite-dimensional alphabet over $G$ is injective. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.4891v1