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Flow equivalence of sofic beta-shifts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2016
Abstract
The Fischer, Krieger, and fiber product covers of sofic beta-shifts are constructed and used to show that every strictly sofic beta-shift is 2-sofic. Flow invariants based on the covers are computed, and shown to depend only on a single integer that can easily be determined from the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}$-expansion of 1. It is shown that any beta-shift is flow equivalent to a beta-shift given by some
$1<\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}<2$, and concrete constructions lead to further reductions of the flow classification problem. For each sofic beta-shift, there is an action of
$\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ on the edge shift given by the fiber product, and it is shown precisely when there exists a flow equivalence respecting these
$\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$-actions. This opens a connection to ongoing efforts to classify general irreducible 2-sofic shifts via flow equivalences of reducible shifts of finite type (SFTs) equipped with
$\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$-actions.
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