Open problems in symbolic dynamics
Open Problems in Symbolic Dynamics
This is a website devoted to presenting open problems in
symbolic dynamics and tracking their solutions. I welcome
suggestions for open problems, links to related problem
sites and announcements of solved problems.
The initial
seed for the site is the survey
Open problems in symbolic dynamics
("
OPSD"),
from "Geometric and probabilistic structures in dynamics, 69--118,
Contemp. Math., 469, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2008."
I'll post announcements of solutions to problems from
OPSD,
and I hope that
those who solve problems from
OPSD
will include
OPSD
in
their references, so that future workers can easily find solutions
in MathSciNet by tracking citations.
Problems from OPSD which have been solved:
- Problem 8.1 A significant case is solved in
by Wolfgang Krieger in an
arXiv preprint ,
"On images of sofic systems".
He gives necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a
factor map from a transitive sofic shift S onto a
transitive aperiodic sofic shift T in the
case that h(S)>h(T).
-
Questions 11.3 and 11.4 were answered in the affirmative by
Mike Hochman in
"Non-expansive directions of Z^2 actions", an
ArXiv preprint .
The final paper is to appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.
-
Problem 23.1
is solved and Question 23.2 answered by
Giordano, Matui, Putnam and Skau in
"Orbit equivalence for Cantor minimal Zd-systems",
Invent. Math. 179 (2010), no. 1, 119-158
(and its
arXiv preprint).
-
Question 27.1 (and more) was answered in the affirmative by
Mike Hochman in an Arxiv preprint
"Isomorphism and embedding into Markov shifts off universally
null sets". The final paper to appear in Acta Applicandae Mathematicae.
- Problem 28.1 (due to
Klaus Thomsen), "Must a subshift factor of a
beta shift be intrinisically ergodic?" was answered in the
affirmative by Vaughn Climenhaga and Daniel J. Thompson, in
their ArXiv preprint
Intrinsic ergodicity beyond specification: beta-shifts,
S-gap shifts, and their factors. Their solution addresses
much more than the beta shifts.
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