Simulation of Effective Subshifts by Two-dimensional Subshifts of Finite Type

  • Authors:
  • Nathalie Aubrun;Mathieu Sablik

  • Affiliations:
  • LIP---UMR 5668, ENS Lyon---CNRS---UCBL---INRIA, Lyon Cedex, France 69364;LATP, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille Cedex 13, France 13453

  • Venue:
  • Acta Applicandae Mathematicae: an international survey journal on applying mathematics and mathematical applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this article we study how a subshift can simulate another one, where the notion of simulation is given by operations on subshifts inspired by the dynamical systems theory (factor, projective subaction 驴). There exists a correspondence between the notion of simulation and the set of forbidden patterns. The main result of this paper states that any effective subshift of dimension d--that is a subshift whose set of forbidden patterns can be generated by a Turing machine--can be obtained by applying dynamical operations on a subshift of finite type of dimension d+1--a subshift that can be defined by a finite set of forbidden patterns. This result improves Hochman's (Invent. Math. 176(1):131---167, 2009).