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A sofic system which is not spectrally of finite type

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Susan Williams
Affiliation:
University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, USA
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Abstract

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We exhibit a transitive sofic system for which the core matrix has negative trace, and hence cannot share the nonzero spectrum of any subshift of finite type cover. We also show that every transitive sofic system has an integral core matrix.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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