The royal couple conceals their mutual relationship: A noncoalescent Toeplitz flow
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The royal couple conceals their mutual relationship: A noncoalescent Toeplitz flow
zbMATH Open document ID: 0893.54032
DOI: 10.1007/BF02774039
author: T. Downarowicz
published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 1998-08-12T00:00:00Z
review text: A homeomorphism \(T\) of a compact metric space \(X\) is called (topologically) coalescent if every continuous map which commutes with \(T\) is necessarily invertible. A Toeplitz sequence over a finite alphabet \(\Sigma\) is a sequence \(\omega\in \Sigma^{\mathbb{Z}}\) in which every entry is repeated periodically. More precisely, there exist positive integers \(p_n\) with \(p_n| p_{n+1}\) such that for every positive integer \(k\) there is an \(n\) for which \[ \omega(-k)\dots \omega(k)= \omega(-k+jp_n)\dots \omega(k+jp_n) \] for all \(j\in\mathbb{Z}\). The Toeplitz sequence \(\omega\) is said to be regular if the density of its \(p_n\)-periodic part tends to 1. A Toeplitz flow is a subshift of the full shift \((\Sigma^{\mathbb{Z}},S)\) defined as the orbit closure \((\overline{O} (\omega),S)\) of a Toeplitz sequence \(\omega\). Toeplitz flows are always minimal. In the regular case they are strictly ergodic and have discrete \(L^2\)-spectrum [\textit{K. Jacobs} and \textit{M. Keane}, Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie Verw. Geb. 13, 123-131 (1969; Zbl 0195.52703)]. Some classes of Toeplitz flows are known to consist solely of coalescent flows [\textit{T. Downarowicz, J. Kwiątkowski} and \textit{Y. Lacroix}, Colloq. Math. 68, No. 2, 219-228 (1995; Zbl 0820.28009)] and the question whether a noncoalescent one exists has been around for a few years. The author presents an original construction of a noncoalescent regular Toeplitz flow based on an ingenious use of a \(\mathbb{Z}^2\)-action. In addition, the flow admits a commuting noninvertible continuous map for which the preimage of every Toeplitz sequence in \(\overline{O}(\omega)\) is a singleton.
reviewed by: A. Iwanik
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54H20
zbMATH DE Number: 1011401
zbMATH Keywords: Toeplitz sequence
zbMATH Keywords: coalescent flows
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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