Computing automorphism groups of shifts using atypical equivalence classes
Abstract
We study the automorphism group of an infinite minimal shift such that the complexity difference function, , is bounded. We give some new bounds on and also study the one-sided case. For a class of Toeplitz shifts, including the class of shifts defined by constant length primitive substitutions with a coincidence and with height one, we show that the two-sided automorphism group is a cyclic group. We next focus on shifts generated by primitive constant length substitutions. For these shifts, we give an algorithm that computes their two-sided automorphism group, As a corollary we describe how to compute the set of conjugacies between two such shifts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.02482,
title = {Computing automorphism groups of shifts using atypical equivalence classes},
author = {Ethan M. Coven and Anthony Quas and Reem Yassawi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02482},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
This new version of the article has been reformatted for Discrete Analysis but is otherwise identical to the previous version