Forbidden Words in Symbolic Dynamics
Forbidden Words in Symbolic Dynamics
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符号动力学中的禁用词
DOI:
10.1006/aama.2000.0682
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
M. Sciortino
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作者:
Marie;F. Mignosi;A. Restivo;M. Sciortino
We introduce an equivalence relation?between functions from N to N. By describing a symbolic dynamical system in terms of forbidden words, we prove that the?-equivalence class of the function that counts the minimal forbidden words of a system is a topological invariant of the system. We show that the new invariant is independent from previous ones, but it is not characteristic. In the case of sofic systems, we prove that the?-equivalence of the corresponding functions is a decidable question. As a more special application, we show, by using the new invariant, that two systems associated to Sturmian words having “different slope” are not conjugate.