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| author | Coles, Solly Cyr, Van Kra, Bryna Pavlov, Ronnie |
| author_facet | Coles, Solly Cyr, Van Kra, Bryna Pavlov, Ronnie |
| contents | Given a dynamical system, a characteristic measure is a Borel probability measure invariant under all of its automorphisms. Frisch and Tamuz asked if every symbolic system supports such a measure. Motivated by this problem, we study the natural cover of a subshift by its shift of finite type approximations and two senses in which this cover can be said to stabilize. The first is in terms of entropy decay and the second in terms of periodic points. We show that the first type of stabilization gives a new characterization of the class of language stable shifts and demonstrates that there is a mechanism for producing a characteristic measures that relies only on entropy differences. For the second type of stabilization, we show that this defines a new class of subshifts, invariant under conjugacies, that have characteristic measures. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Stable covers of subshifts Coles, Solly Cyr, Van Kra, Bryna Pavlov, Ronnie Dynamical Systems 37B10, 37A15 Given a dynamical system, a characteristic measure is a Borel probability measure invariant under all of its automorphisms. Frisch and Tamuz asked if every symbolic system supports such a measure. Motivated by this problem, we study the natural cover of a subshift by its shift of finite type approximations and two senses in which this cover can be said to stabilize. The first is in terms of entropy decay and the second in terms of periodic points. We show that the first type of stabilization gives a new characterization of the class of language stable shifts and demonstrates that there is a mechanism for producing a characteristic measures that relies only on entropy differences. For the second type of stabilization, we show that this defines a new class of subshifts, invariant under conjugacies, that have characteristic measures. |
| title | Stable covers of subshifts |
| topic | Dynamical Systems 37B10, 37A15 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04097 |