Embedding Bratteli-Vershik systems in cellular automata

作者:Pivato Marcus*; Yassawi Reem
来源:Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 2010, 30(05): 1561-1572.
DOI:10.1017/S0143385709000601

摘要

Many dynamical systems can be naturally represented as Bratteli-Vershik (or adic) systems, which provide an appealing combinatorial description of their dynamics. If an adic system X is linearly recurrent, then we show how to represent X using a two-dimensional subshift of finite type Y; each 'row' in a Y-admissible configuration corresponds to an infinite path in the Bratteli diagram of X, and the vertical shift on Y corresponds to the 'successor' map of X. Any Y-admissible configuration can then be recoded as the space-time diagram of a one-dimensional cellular automaton Phi; in this way X is embedded in Phi (i.e. X is conjugate to a subsystem of Phi). With this technique, we can embed many odometers, Toeplitz systems, and constant-length substitution systems in one-dimensional cellular automata.

  • 出版日期2010-10