Positive expansiveness versus network dimension in symbolic dynamical systems

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DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2011.02.021zbMATH Open1223.37018arXiv0907.2935OpenAlexW2093783531MaRDI QIDQ549698FDOQ549698

Marcus Pivato

Publication date: 18 July 2011

Published in: Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A `symbolic dynamical system' is a continuous transformation F:X-->X of a closed perfect subset X of A^V, where A is a finite set and V is countable. (Examples include subshifts, odometers, cellular automata, and automaton networks.) The function F induces a directed graph structure on V, whose geometry reveals information about the dynamical system (X,F). The `dimension' dim(V) is an exponent describing the growth rate of balls in the digraph as a function of their radius. We show: if X has positive entropy and dim(V)>1, and the system (A^V,X,F) satisfies minimal symmetry and mixing conditions, then (X,F) cannot be positively expansive; this generalizes a well-known result of Shereshevsky about multidimensional cellular automata. We also construct a counterexample to a version of this result without the symmetry condition. Finally, we show that network dimension is invariant under topological conjugacies which are Holder-continuous.


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