Nilpotent endomorphisms of expansive group actions

DOI10.1142/S021819672150020XMaRDI QIDQ4994447zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ville Salo, Ilkka A. Törmä

Publication date 18 June 2021

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07630

zbMATH Keywords

cellular automatadynamical systemexpansivitygroup actionnilpotencyrigiditysubshift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics in general topological spaces (37B02) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Dynamical aspects of cellular automata (37B15) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15)

Abstract: We consider expansive group actions on a compact metric space containing a special fixed point denoted by $0$, and endomorphisms of such systems whose forward trajectories are attracted toward $0$. Such endomorphisms are called asymptotically nilpotent, and we study the conditions in which they are nilpotent, that is, map the entire space to $0$ in a finite number of iterations. We show that for a large class of discrete groups, this property of nil-rigidity holds for all expansive actions that satisfy a natural specification-like property and have dense homoclinic points. Our main result in particular shows that the class includes all residually finite solvable groups and all groups of polynomial growth. For expansive actions of the group $mathbbZ$, we show that a very weak gluing property suffices for nil-rigidity. For $mathbb{Z}^2$-subshifts of finite type, we show that the block-gluing property suffices. The study of nil-rigidity is motivated by two aspects of the theory of cellular automata and symbolic dynamics: It can be seen as a finiteness property for groups, which is representative of the theory of cellular automata on groups. Nilpotency also plays a prominent role in the theory of cellular automata as dynamical systems. As a technical tool of possible independent interest, the proof involves the construction of tiered dynamical systems where several groups act on nested subsets of the original space.

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