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A sharp bound on the number of invariant components of an interval exchange transformation is provided. More precisely, it is proved that the number of periodic components n_per and the number of minimal components n_min of an interval…
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We study a reversible one-dimensional spin system with Bernoulli(p) stationary distribution, in which a site can flip only if the site to its left is in state +1. Such models have been used as simple exemplars of systems exhibiting slow…