Interaction cohomology of forward or backward self-similar systems (Q843223)

The paper concerns with the dynamics of forward or backward self-similar systems and the topological structure of their invariant sets. The author first define a new interaction cohomology for the forward or backward self-similar systems and then show that under certain conditions, the space of connected components of the invariant set is isomorphic to the inverse limit of the space of connected components of the realizations of the nerves of finite coverings of the invariant set, where each covering consists of (backward) images of the invariant set under elements of finite word length. Moreover, the author gives a criterion for the invariant set to be connected and finds a sufficient condition for the first cohomology group to have infinite rank. As an application, the author obtain a few results on the dynamical systems of semigroups of polynomials. The author also defines postunbranched systems and discusses the interaction cohomology groups of such systems. A few interesting examples are given.