In a 1982 paper Rauzy showed that the subshift $(X,T)$ generated by the morphism $1\mapsto 12$, $2\mapsto 13$ and $3\mapsto 1$ is a natural coding of a rotation on the two-dimensional torus ${𝕋}^2$, i.e., is measure-theoretically conjugate to an exchange of three fractal domains on a compact set in ${ℝ}^2,$ each domain being translated by the same vector modulo a lattice. It was believed more generally that each sequence of block complexity $2n+1$ satisfying a combinatorial criterion known as the $☆$ condition of Arnoux and Rauzy codes the orbit of a point...

Let (X,T) be a Cantor minimal system and let (R,) be the associated étale equivalence relation (the orbit equivalence relation). We show that for an arbitrary Cantor minimal system (Y,S) there exists a closed subset Z of X such that (Y,S) is conjugate to the subsystem (Z,T̃), where T̃ is the induced map on Z from T. We explore when we may choose Z to be a T-regular and/or a T-thin set, and we relate T-regularity of a set to R-étaleness. The latter concept plays an important role in the study of...

We consider endomorphisms of a monoid defined by a special confluent rewriting system that admit a continuous extension to the completion given by reduced infinite words, and study from a dynamical viewpoint the nature of their infinite periodic points. For prefix-convergent endomorphisms and expanding endomorphisms, we determine the structure of the set of all infinite periodic points in terms of adherence values, bound the periods and show that all regular periodic points are attractors.

We investigate generalizations of Ingram's Conjecture involving maps on trees. We show that for a class of tentlike maps on the k-star with periodic critical orbit, different maps in the class have distinct inverse limit spaces. We do this by showing that such maps satisfy the conclusion of the Pseudo-isotopy Conjecture, i.e., if h is a homeomorphism of the inverse limit space, then there is an integer N such that h and σ̂^N switch composants in the same way, where σ̂ is the standard shift map of...

This paper reviews some results regarding symbolic dynamics, correspondence between languages of dynamical systems and combinatorics. Sturmian sequences provide a pattern for investigation of one-dimensional systems, in particular interval exchange transformation. Rauzy graphs language can express many important combinatorial and some dynamical properties. In this case combinatorial properties are considered as being generated by a substitutional system, and dynamical properties are considered...