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Four-cycle free graphs, height functions, the pivot property and entropy minimality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2016

NISHANT CHANDGOTIA
NISHANT CHANDGOTIA*
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Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Canada email nishant@math.ubc.ca
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Abstract

Fix $d\geq 2$. Given a finite undirected graph ${\mathcal{H}}$ without self-loops and multiple edges, consider the corresponding ‘vertex’ shift, $\text{Hom}(\mathbb{Z}^{d},{\mathcal{H}})$, denoted by $X_{{\mathcal{H}}}$. In this paper, we focus on ${\mathcal{H}}$ which is ‘four-cycle free’. There are two main results of this paper. Firstly, that $X_{{\mathcal{H}}}$ has the pivot property, meaning that, for all distinct configurations $x,y\in X_{{\mathcal{H}}}$, which differ only at a finite number of sites, there is a sequence of configurations $x=x^{1},x^{2},\ldots ,x^{n}=y\in X_{{\mathcal{H}}}$ for which the successive configurations $x^{i},x^{i+1}$ differ exactly at a single site. Secondly, if ${\mathcal{H}}$ is connected ,then $X_{{\mathcal{H}}}$ is entropy minimal, meaning that every shift space strictly contained in $X_{{\mathcal{H}}}$ has strictly smaller entropy. The proofs of these seemingly disparate statements are related by the use of the ‘lifts’ of the configurations in $X_{{\mathcal{H}}}$ to the universal cover of ${\mathcal{H}}$ and the introduction of ‘height functions’ in this context.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , June 2017 , pp. 1102 - 1132
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© Cambridge University Press, 2016 

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