Symbolic representations of iterated maps

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Abstract: This paper presents a general and systematic discussion of various symbolic representations of iterated maps through subshifts. We give a unified model for all continuous maps on a metric space, by representing a map through a general subshift over usually an uncountable alphabet. It is shown that at most the second order representation is enough for a continuous map. In particular, it is shown that the dynamics of one-dimensional continuous maps to a great extent can be transformed to the study of subshift structure of a general symbolic dynamics system. By introducing distillations, partial representations of some general continuous maps are obtained. Finally, partitions and representations of a class of discontinuous maps, piecewise continuous maps are discussed, and as examples, a representation of the Gauss map via a full shift over a countable alphabet and representations of interval exchange transformations as subshifts of infinite type are given.


Symbolic representations of dynamical systems are discussed. Note that here a finite or countable alphabet is allowed. If one has more than one representation, then these representations are different in how good the dynamics of the symbolic representation corresponds to the dynamics of the original map. In order to describe this different definitions for such representations are given. The authors give also a description of a representation of certain discontinuous maps. In the one-dimensional case one has the best correspondence between the representation and the map.











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