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On the Structure of Covers of Sofic Shifts

Dynamical Systems 2011-05-18 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

A canonical cover generalizing the left Fischer cover to arbitrary sofic shifts is introduced and used to prove that the left Krieger cover and the past set cover of a sofic shift can be divided into natural layers. These results are used to find the range of a flow-invariant and to investigate the ideal structure of the universal C*-algebra associated to a sofic shift space.

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@article{arxiv.0912.2514,
  title  = {On the Structure of Covers of Sofic Shifts},
  author = {Rune Johansen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.2514},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

To appear in Documenta Mathematica. Section 2 has been shortened. Three sections concerning the layered structure of the left Krieger cover and the past set cover have been merged and rewritten. Non-essential examples have been omitted. 21 pages, 8 figures