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- The first book to describe the relation between profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics
- Provides new insights into both fields of profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics
- Defines all concepts in detail and provides numerous exercises
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2274)
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This book describes the relation between profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics. Profinite semigroups are topological semigroups which are compact and residually finite. In particular, free profinite semigroups can be seen as the completion of free semigroups with respect to the profinite metric. In this metric, two words are close if one needs a morphism on a large finite monoid to distinguish them. The main focus is on a natural correspondence between minimal shift spaces (closed shift-invariant sets of two-sided infinite words) and maximal J-classes (certain subsets of free profinite semigroups). This correspondence sheds light on many aspects of both profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics. For example, the return words to a given word in a shift space can be related to the generators of the group of the corresponding J-class. The book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in mathematics or theoretical computer science.
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“This book is remarkable in several respects. It adds a new field of application to semigroup research and, to my knowledge, this is the only reference book on this emerging subject. It enables readers to delve deeper into the three aspects covered in the book: algebraic, topological and combinatorial. I highly recommend it to all mathematicians interested in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words or semigroup theory.” (Jean-Éric Pin, Semigroup Forum, Vol. 109 (3), 2024)
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Book Title: Profinite Semigroups and Symbolic Dynamics
Authors: Jorge Almeida, Alfredo Costa, Revekka Kyriakoglou, Dominique Perrin
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55215-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55214-5Published: 10 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55215-2Published: 10 September 2020
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 278
Number of Illustrations: 63 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Group Theory and Generalizations, Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages