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Disjointness properties for Cartesian products of weakly mixing systems
For we consider the class JP() of dynamical systems whose every
ergodic joining with a Cartesian product of weakly mixing automorphisms
() can be represented as the independent extension of a joining of the
system with only coordinate factors. For we show that, whenever
the maximal spectral type of a weakly mixing automorphism is singular with
respect to the convolution of any continuous measures, i.e. has the
so-called convolution singularity property of order , then belongs to
JP(). To provide examples of such automorphisms, we exploit spectral
simplicity on symmetric Fock spaces. This also allows us to show that for any
the class JP() is essentially larger than JP(). Moreover, we
show that all members of JP() are disjoint from ergodic automorphisms
generated by infinitely divisible stationary processes.Comment: 24 pages, corrected versio
Locally identifying coloring in bounded expansion classes of graphs
A proper vertex coloring of a graph is said to be locally identifying if the
sets of colors in the closed neighborhood of any two adjacent non-twin vertices
are distinct. The lid-chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of
colors used by a locally identifying vertex-coloring. In this paper, we prove
that for any graph class of bounded expansion, the lid-chromatic number is
bounded. Classes of bounded expansion include minor closed classes of graphs.
For these latter classes, we give an alternative proof to show that the
lid-chromatic number is bounded. This leads to an explicit upper bound for the
lid-chromatic number of planar graphs. This answers in a positive way a
question of Esperet et al [L. Esperet, S. Gravier, M. Montassier, P. Ochem and
A. Parreau. Locally identifying coloring of graphs. Electronic Journal of
Combinatorics, 19(2), 2012.]
Joining primeness and disjointness from infinitely divisible systems
We show that ergodic dynamical systems generated by infinitely divisible
stationary processes are disjoint in the sense of Furstenberg with distally
simple systems and systems whose maximal spectral type is singular with respect
to the convolution of any two continuous measures.Comment: 15 page
A new approach to the -regularity of the -abelian complexity of -automatic sequences
We prove that a sequence satisfying a certain symmetry property is
-regular in the sense of Allouche and Shallit, i.e., the -module
generated by its -kernel is finitely generated. We apply this theorem to
develop a general approach for studying the -abelian complexity of
-automatic sequences. In particular, we prove that the period-doubling word
and the Thue--Morse word have -abelian complexity sequences that are
-regular. Along the way, we also prove that the -block codings of these
two words have -abelian complexity sequences that are -regular.Comment: 44 pages, 2 figures; publication versio
The switch operators and push-the-button games: a sequential compound over rulesets
We study operators that combine combinatorial games. This field was initiated
by Sprague-Grundy (1930s), Milnor (1950s) and Berlekamp-Conway-Guy (1970-80s)
via the now classical disjunctive sum operator on (abstract) games. The new
class consists in operators for rulesets, dubbed the switch-operators. The
ordered pair of rulesets (R 1 , R 2) is compatible if, given any position in R
1 , there is a description of how to move in R 2. Given compatible (R 1 , R 2),
we build the push-the-button game R 1 R 2 , where players start by playing
according to the rules R 1 , but at some point during play, one of the players
must switch the rules to R 2 , by pushing the button ". Thus, the game ends
according to the terminal condition of ruleset R 2. We study the pairwise
combinations of the classical rulesets Nim, Wythoff and Euclid. In addition, we
prove that standard periodicity results for Subtraction games transfer to this
setting, and we give partial results for a variation of Domineering, where R 1
is the game where the players put the domino tiles horizontally and R 2 the
game where they play vertically (thus generalizing the octal game 0.07).Comment: Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), Elsevier, A
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On powers of interval graphs and their orders
It was proved by Raychaudhuri in 1987 that if a graph power is an
interval graph, then so is the next power . This result was extended to
-trapezoid graphs by Flotow in 1995. We extend the statement for interval
graphs by showing that any interval representation of can be extended
to an interval representation of that induces the same left endpoint and
right endpoint orders. The same holds for unit interval graphs. We also show
that a similar fact does not hold for trapezoid graphs.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. It has come to our attention that Theorem 1, the
main result of this note, follows from earlier results of [G. Agnarsson, P.
Damaschke and M. M. Halldorsson. Powers of geometric intersection graphs and
dispersion algorithms. Discrete Applied Mathematics 132(1-3):3-16, 2003].
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