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Embedding solenoids in foliations
In this paper we find smooth embeddings of solenoids in smooth foliations. We
show that if a smooth foliation F of a manifold M contains a compact leaf L
with H^1(L;R)= 0 and if the foliation is a product foliation in some saturated
open neighbourhood U of L, then there exists a foliation F' on M which is
C^1-close to F, and F' has an uncountable set of solenoidal minimal sets
contained in U that are pair wise non-homeomorphic. If H^1(L;R) is not 0, then
it is known that any sufficiently small perturbation of F contains a saturated
product neighbourhood. Thus, our result can be thought of as an instability
result complementing the stability results of Reeb, Thurston and Langevin and
Rosenberg
Profinite Groups Associated to Sofic Shifts are Free
We show that the maximal subgroup of the free profinite semigroup associated
by Almeida to an irreducible sofic shift is a free profinite group,
generalizing an earlier result of the second author for the case of the full
shift (whose corresponding maximal subgroup is the maximal subgroup of the
minimal ideal). A corresponding result is proved for certain relatively free
profinite semigroups. We also establish some other analogies between the kernel
of the free profinite semigroup and the \J-class associated to an irreducible
sofic shift
The Spectra of Lamplighter Groups and Cayley Machines
We calculate the spectra and spectral measures associated to random walks on
restricted wreath products of finite groups with the infinite cyclic group, by
calculating the Kesten-von Neumann-Serre spectral measures for the random walks
on Schreier graphs of certain groups generated by automata. This generalises
the work of Grigorchuk and Zuk on the lamplighter group. In the process we
characterise when the usual spectral measure for a group generated by automata
coincides with the Kesten-von Neumann-Serre spectral measure.Comment: 36 pages, improved exposition, main results slightly strengthene
Dynamical Systems on Spectral Metric Spaces
Let (A,H,D) be a spectral triple, namely: A is a C*-algebra, H is a Hilbert
space on which A acts and D is a selfadjoint operator with compact resolvent
such that the set of elements of A having a bounded commutator with D is dense.
A spectral metric space, the noncommutative analog of a complete metric space,
is a spectral triple (A,H,D) with additional properties which guaranty that the
Connes metric induces the weak*-topology on the state space of A. A
*-automorphism respecting the metric defined a dynamical system. This article
gives various answers to the question: is there a canonical spectral triple
based upon the crossed product algebra AxZ, characterizing the metric
properties of the dynamical system ? If is the noncommutative analog
of an isometry the answer is yes. Otherwise, the metric bundle construction of
Connes and Moscovici is used to replace (A,) by an equivalent dynamical
system acting isometrically. The difficulties relating to the non compactness
of this new system are discussed. Applications, in number theory, in coding
theory are given at the end
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