Substitutions in dynamics, arithmetics and combinatorics

Author(s)

    • Fogg, N. Pytheas
    • Berthé, V.

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Substitutions in dynamics, arithmetics and combinatorics

N. Pytheas Fogg ; editors, V. Berthé ... [et al.]

(Lecture notes in mathematics, 1794)

Springer, c2002

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Bibliography: p. [377]-397

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A certain category of infinite strings of letters on a finite alphabet is presented here, chosen among the 'simplest' possible one may build, both because they are very deterministic and because they are built by simple rules (a letter is replaced by a word, a sequence is produced by iteration). These substitutive sequences have a surprisingly rich structure. The authors describe the concepts of quantity of natural interactions, with combinatorics on words, ergodic theory, linear algebra, spectral theory, geometry of tilings, theoretical computer science, diophantine approximation, trancendence, graph theory. This volume fulfils the need for a reference on the basic definitions and theorems, as well as for a state-of-the-art survey of the more difficult and unsolved problems.

Table of Contents

Basic notions on substitutions.- Basic notions on substitutions.- Arithmetics and combinatorics of substitutions.- Substitutions, arithmetic and finite automata: an introduction.- Automatic sequences and transcendence.- Substitutions and partitions of the set of positive integers.- Dynamics of substitutions.- Substitutions and symbolic dynamical systems.- Sturmian Sequences.- Spectral theory and geometric representation of substitutions.- Diophantine approximations, substitutions, and fractals.- Extensions to free groups and interval transformations.- Infinite words generated by invertible substitutions.- Polynomial dynamical systems associated with substitutions.- Piecewise linear transformations of the unit interval and Cantor sets.- Some open problems.- A. Undecomposable matrices in dimension 3 (by J. Rivat).

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Details

  • NCID
    BA59097459
  • ISBN
    • 3540441417
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berlin ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 402 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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