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The Thue-Morse shift, Baumslag-Solitar group, and biminimality

Group Theory 2019-10-17 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Call a group action on a topological space \emph{biminimal} if for any points x,yXx,y\in X there exists a group element taking xx arbitrarily close to yy and whose inverse takes yy arbitrarily close to xx. A symbolic encoding of the Thue-Morse dynamical system is given, in terms of ω\omega-automata. It is used to prove that the Thue-Morse dynamical system is minimal but not biminimal. The ω\omega-automata also establish a link between Nekrashevych's presentation of limit spaces and solenoids with a construction described by Vershik and Solomyak.

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@article{arxiv.1910.07399,
  title  = {The Thue-Morse shift, Baumslag-Solitar group, and biminimality},
  author = {Laurent Bartholdi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07399},
  year   = {2019}
}