{ "id": "1403.7659", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-03-29T18:36:55.000Z", "updated": "2015-03-08T11:43:38.000Z", "title": "Substitution shifts generated by $p$-adic integer sequences", "authors": [ "Eric Rowland", "Reem Yassawi" ], "comment": "17 pages", "categories": [ "math.DS" ], "abstract": "We set the stage for studying some substitution shifts defined on an infinite alphabet. We consider sequences of $p$-adic integers that project modulo $p^\\alpha$ to a $p$-automatic sequence for every $\\alpha \\geq 0$. Examples include algebraic sequences of integers, which satisfy this property for any prime $p$, and some cocycle sequences, which we show satisfy this property for a fixed $p$. By considering the shift-orbit closure of such a sequence in $\\mathbb{Z}_p^\\mathbb{N}$, we describe how this shift is a letter-to-letter coding of a shift generated by a constant-length substitution defined on an uncountable alphabet.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-03-29T18:36:55.000Z", "title": "A family of constant length substitutions on the p-adic integers", "abstract": "We set the stage for studying some substitution subshifts defined on an infinite alphabet. We consider sequences of $p$-adic integers that project modulo $p^\\alpha$ to a $p$-automatic sequence for every $\\alpha \\geq 1$. Examples include algebraic sequences of integers, which satisfy this property for any prime $p$, and some cocycle sequences, which we show satisfy this property for a fixed $p$. By considering the shift-orbit closure of such a sequence in ${\\mathbb Z}_p^{\\mathbb N}$, we describe how this subshift is a letter-to-letter coding of a subshift generated by a constant-length substitution defined on a closed subset of ${\\mathbb Z}_p$.", "comment": "16 pages, 5 figures", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2015-03-08T11:43:38.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "37B10", "05A15", "11A07", "11B85" ], "keywords": [ "constant length substitutions", "p-adic integers", "project modulo", "substitution subshifts", "automatic sequence" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 17, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1403.7659R" } } }