Lamplighters admit weakly aperiodic SFTs

  • David Bruce Cohen

    University of Chicago, USA
Lamplighters admit weakly aperiodic SFTs cover
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Abstract

Let be a finite set and a group. A closed subset of is called a subshift if the action of on preserves . If is a closed subset of such that membership in is determined by looking at a fixed finite set of coordinates, and is the intersection of all translates of under the action of , then is called a subshift of finite type (SFT). If an SFT is nonempty and contains no finite -orbits, it is said to be weakly aperiodic. A virtually cyclic group has no weakly aperiodic SFT, and Carroll and Penland have conjectured that a group with no weakly aperiodic SFT must be virtually cyclic. Answering a question of Jeandel, we show that lamplighters always admit weakly aperiodic SFTs.

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David Bruce Cohen, Lamplighters admit weakly aperiodic SFTs. Groups Geom. Dyn. 14 (2020), no. 4, pp. 1241–1252

DOI 10.4171/GGD/579