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Symbol ratio minimax sequences in the lexicographic order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2014

PHILIP BOYLAND ,
ANDRÉ DE CARVALHO  and
TOBY HALL
PHILIP BOYLAND
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, 372 Little Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-8105, USA
ANDRÉ DE CARVALHO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, IME-USP, Rua Do Matão 1010, Cidade Universitária, 05508-090 São Paulo SP, Brazil
TOBY HALL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZL, UK email t.hall@liv.ac.uk
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Abstract

Consider the space of sequences of $k$ letters ordered lexicographically. We study the set ${\mathcal{M}}(\boldsymbol{{\it\alpha}})$ of all maximal sequences for which the asymptotic proportions $\boldsymbol{{\it\alpha}}$ of the letters are prescribed, where a sequence is said to be maximal if it is at least as great as all of its tails. The infimum of ${\mathcal{M}}(\boldsymbol{{\it\alpha}})$ is called the $\boldsymbol{{\it\alpha}}$-infimax sequence, or the $\boldsymbol{{\it\alpha}}$-minimax sequence if the infimum is a minimum. We give an algorithm which yields all infimax sequences, and show that the infimax is not a minimax if and only if it is the $\boldsymbol{{\it\alpha}}$-infimax for every $\boldsymbol{{\it\alpha}}$ in a simplex of dimension 1 or greater. These results have applications to the theory of rotation sets of beta-shifts and torus homeomorphisms.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 35 , Issue 8 , December 2015 , pp. 2371 - 2396
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© Cambridge University Press, 2014 

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