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This paper considers a class of probabilistic cellular automata undergoing a phase transition with an absorbing state. Denoting by ${\mathcal{U}}(x)$ the neighbourhood of site $x$, the transition probability is $T(\eta_x = 1 | \eta_{{\mathcal{U}}(x)}) = 0$ if $\eta_{{\mathcal{U}}(x)}= \mathbf{0}$ or $p$ otherwise, $\forall x \in \mathbb{Z}$. For any $\mathcal{U}$ there exists a non-trivial critical probability $p_c({\mathcal{U}})$ that separates a phase with an absorbing state from a fluctuating phase. This paper studies how the neighbourhood affects the value of $p_c({\mathcal{U}})$ and provides lower bounds for $p_c({\mathcal{U}})$. Furthermore, by using dynamic renormalization techniques, we prove that the expected convergence time of the processes on a finite space with periodic boundaries grows exponentially (resp. logarithmically) with the system size if $p > p_c$ (resp. $p<p_c$). This provides a partial answer to an open problem in Toom et al. (1990, 1994).
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