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Trees in positive entropy subshifts

Dynamical Systems 2021-06-02 v2

Abstract

I give a simple proof for the fact that positive entropy subshifts contain infinite binary trees where branching happens synchronously in each branch, and that the branching times form a set with positive lower asymptotic density.

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@article{arxiv.1911.08146,
  title  = {Trees in positive entropy subshifts},
  author = {Ville Salo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08146},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages; v2 adds proofs of some claims and fixes a terminological confusion in the intro

R2 v1 2026-06-23T12:20:22.484Z