Title: Characterizing substitution minimal sets
Speaker: Andrew Dykstra
Speaker Info: Hamilton College
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It is well known that a doubly-infinite sequence of 0's and 1's belongs to the Morse minimal set if and only if it does not contain any word of the form BBb, where b is the first letter of B. In 2008, Ethan Coven, Mike Keane, and Michelle LeMasurier found a similar characterization of the Toeplitz minimal set and gave necessary and sufficient conditions for a minimal subshift to be topologically conjugate to Morse or Toeplitz. In this talk, we characterize a broad new class of constant-length substitutions up to topological conjugacy. The substitutions we consider include all constant-length examples from Gottschalk's seminal 1963 paper.Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011