Parametrized complexity of relations between multidimensional subshifts

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Main Authors: Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor, de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin, Pallen, Rémi
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author Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor
de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin
Pallen, Rémi
author_facet Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor
de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin
Pallen, Rémi
contents We study the parametrized complexity of fundamental relations between multidimensional subshifts, such as equality, conjugacy, inclusion, and embedding, for subshifts of finite type (SFTs) and effective subshifts. We build on previous work of E. Jeandel and P. Vanier on the complexity of these relations as two-input problems, by fixing one subshift as parameter and taking the other subshift as input. We study the impact of various dynamical properties related to periodicity, minimality, finite type, etc. on the computational properties of the parameter subshift, which reveals interesting differences and asymmetries. Among other notable results, we find choices of parameter that reach the maximum difficulty for each problem; we find nontrivial decidable problems for multidimensional SFT, where most properties are undecidable; and we find connections with recent work relating having computable language and being minimal for some property, showing in particular that this property may not always be chosen conjugacy-invariant.
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spellingShingle Parametrized complexity of relations between multidimensional subshifts
Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor
de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin
Pallen, Rémi
Dynamical Systems
Information Theory
Logic
37B10, 68Q15, 03D05
We study the parametrized complexity of fundamental relations between multidimensional subshifts, such as equality, conjugacy, inclusion, and embedding, for subshifts of finite type (SFTs) and effective subshifts. We build on previous work of E. Jeandel and P. Vanier on the complexity of these relations as two-input problems, by fixing one subshift as parameter and taking the other subshift as input. We study the impact of various dynamical properties related to periodicity, minimality, finite type, etc. on the computational properties of the parameter subshift, which reveals interesting differences and asymmetries. Among other notable results, we find choices of parameter that reach the maximum difficulty for each problem; we find nontrivial decidable problems for multidimensional SFT, where most properties are undecidable; and we find connections with recent work relating having computable language and being minimal for some property, showing in particular that this property may not always be chosen conjugacy-invariant.
title Parametrized complexity of relations between multidimensional subshifts
topic Dynamical Systems
Information Theory
Logic
37B10, 68Q15, 03D05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24343