The topological centralizers of Toeplitz flows and their \(Z_ 2\)- extensions (Q808024)

The paper deals with the shift dynamical system (X,T), where X is the orbit closure of a Toeplitz sequence \(\omega\) (of 0's and 1's). The authors introduce a property (sh) (``separated holes'') for this sequence. For the sequence \(\omega\) having this property, the authors prove: (1) Minimality of the skew product extension \(\tilde T\) obtained from the cocycle \(\omega \to \omega (0).\) (2) (X,T) is topologically coalescent. (3) The commutants of \(\tilde T\) are \({\mathbb{Z}}_ 2\) skew product extensions of some commutant of T and every commutant of T can be lifted to a commutant of \(\tilde T.\) By considering special \(\omega\) 's the authors also prove that (4) if \(\{q_ 0,q_ 1,...\}\) is a set of all prime numbers except at least one and \(I_ j\in {\mathbb{N}},\) then there exists a Toeplitz sequence fo which the topological centralizer of the flow generated is the direct sum \(\oplus {\mathbb{Z}}_{n(j)}\oplus {\mathbb{Z}},\) where \(n_ j=(q_ j)^{I_ j}.\) In the proofs of these results, a crucial role is played by the fact that the maximal equicontinuous factor of Toeplitz flow is given by the translation flow on the group of \(p_ n\)-adic integers, where \(p_ n\) is the period structure of the sequence \(\omega\).