Fitting ideals for finitely presented algebraic dynamical systems

DOI10.1007/S000100050135MaRDI QIDQ1587837zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manfred Einsiedler, Thomas B. Ward

Publication date 3 December 2000

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9907010, http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/149680/1/9907010v1.pdf, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/10061/

zbMATH Keywords

compact abelian groupdynamical systems of algebraic originentropyFitting ideals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15)

Abstract: We consider a class of algebraic dynamical systems introduced by Kitchens and Schmidt. Under a weak finiteness condition -- the Descending Chain Condition -- the dual modules have finite presentations. Using methods from commutative algebra we show how the dynamical properties of the system may be deduced from the Fitting ideals of a finite free resolution of the finitely presented module. The entropy and expansiveness are shown to depend only on the first Fitting ideal (and certain multiplicity data) which gives an easy computation: in particular, no syzygy modules need to be computed. For `square' presentations (in which the number of generators is equal to the number of relations) all the dynamics is visible in the first Fitting ideal and certain multiplicity data, and we show how the dynamical properties and periodic point behaviour may be deduced from the determinant of the matrix of relations.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a group acting by automorphisms on a compact abelian group \(X\). The Pontryagin dual \(M=\widehat X\), a discrete abelian group, becomes a module of the group ring \(R=\mathbb{Z}[G]\) in a natural way. Algebraic properties of \(M\) then reflect dynamical and topological properties of the action of \(G\) on \(X\). In the paper under consideration the case \(G=\mathbb{Z}^d\) and \(M\) noetherian is studied. The authors show how entropy, expansiveness and periodic point behaviour depend on the structure of the Fitting ideals of a finite free resolution of \(M\).

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