The Chain Relation in Sofic Subshifts

  • Authors:
  • Alexandr Kazda

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd.) Department of Algebra, MFF UK Sokolovská 83, Praha 8, 186 75, Czech Republic. E-mail: alexak@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The paper gives a characterisation of the chain relation of a sofic subshift. Every sofic subshift Σ can be described by a labelled graph G. Factorising G in a suitable way we obtain the graph G/≈ that offers insight into some properties of the original subshift. Using G/≈ we describe first the chain relation in Σ, then characterise chain-transitive sofic subshifts, chain-mixing sofic subshifts and finally the attractors of the subshift dynamic system. At the end we present (straightforward) algorithms deciding chain-transitivity and chain-mixing properties of a sofic subshift and listing all the attractors of the subshift system.