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Direct topological factorization for topological flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2015

TOM MEYEROVITCH
TOM MEYEROVITCH*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel email [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper considers the general question of when a topological action of a countable group can be factored into a direct product of non-trivial actions. In the early 1980s, D. Lind considered such questions for $\mathbb{Z}$-shifts of finite type. In particular, we study direct factorizations of subshifts of finite type over $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$ and other groups, and $\mathbb{Z}$-subshifts which are not of finite type. The main results concern direct factors of the multidimensional full $n$-shift, the multidimensional $3$-colored chessboard and the Dyck shift over a prime alphabet. A direct factorization of an expansive $\mathbb{G}$-action must be finite, but an example is provided of a non-expansive $\mathbb{Z}$-action for which there is no finite direct-prime factorization. The question about existence of direct-prime factorization of expansive actions remains open, even for $\mathbb{G}=\mathbb{Z}$.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , May 2017 , pp. 837 - 858
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© Cambridge University Press, 2015 

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