Texas A&M University, Department of
Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 30th of November 2005, 3:00-3:50
Groups and Dynamics Seminar
A substitution
subshift related to the Grigorchuk group
Yaroslav Vorobets of Clay Mathematics
Institute
The subject of the talk is a certain substitution over
the 4-letter alphabet that plays important role in
the study of the Grigorchuk group. On the other hand,
this substitution gives rise to a dynamical system,
a substitution subshift. I will discuss properties
of the dynamical system, which turns out to be
almost conjugated to the binary odometer, and possible
connections with the Grigorchuk group.