An analysis of words coming from Chacon's transformation
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Publication:6326019
arXiv1909.11880MaRDI QIDQ6326019FDOQ6326019
Authors: Patrick Bell, Hunter Brumley, Aaron Hill, Nathanael McGlothlin, Maireigh Nicholas, Tofunmi Ogunfunmi 
Publication date: 26 September 2019
Abstract: We analyze finite and infinite words coming from the symbolic version of Chacon's transformation, focusing on distances between such words. Our main result is that if W = 0010 0010 1 0010 ... is the infinite word usually associated with Chacon's transformation, then the Hamming distance between W and any positive shift of W is strictly greater than 2/9; moreover, this bound is sharp. This yields an alternate proof that Chacon's transformation is non-rigid and (using King's weak closure theorem) has trivial centralizer.
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