Ebook: Substitutions in Dynamics, Arithmetics and Combinatorics
- Genre: Mathematics // Combinatorics
- Tags: Number Theory, Real Functions, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, Sequences Series Summability, Computation by Abstract Devices, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
- Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1794
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- City: Berlin; New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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.