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Computing automorphism groups of shifts using atypical equivalence classes

Dynamical Systems 2017-02-02 v4

Abstract

We study the automorphism group of an infinite minimal shift (X,σ)(X,\sigma) such that the complexity difference function, p(n+1)p(n)p(n+1)-p(n), is bounded. We give some new bounds on \mboxAut(X,σ)/σ\mbox{Aut}(X,\sigma)/\langle \sigma \rangle 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.

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@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

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