Minimum-dimension trace maps for substitution sequences
- 21 March 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 72 (12) , 1842-1845
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.1842
Abstract
We construct trace maps for products of 2×2 matrices generated by arbitrary substitution sequences. The dimension of the underlying space of our trace map is the minimal possible, namely 3r-3 for an alphabet of size r≥2.Keywords
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