Measures Essentially of Finite Type and Spectral Asymptotics of Fractal Laplacians

Author(s):  
Sze-Man Ngai
1996 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 441-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
STAVROS GAROUFALIDIS

Recently Ohtsuki [Oh2], motivated by the notion of finite type knot invariants, introduced the notion of finite type invariants for oriented, integral homology 3-spheres. In the present paper we propose another definition of finite type invariants of integral homology 3-spheres and give equivalent reformulations of our notion. We show that our invariants form a filtered commutative algebra. We compare the two induced filtrations on the vector space on the set of integral homology 3-spheres. As an observation, we discover a new set of restrictions that finite type invariants in the sense of Ohtsuki satisfy and give a set of axioms that characterize the Casson invariant. Finally, we pose a set of questions relating the finite type 3-manifold invariants with the (Vassiliev) knot invariants.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
RONNIE PAVLOV

AbstractIn this paper, we study perturbations of multidimensional shifts of finite type. Specifically, for any ℤd shift of finite type X with d>1 and any finite pattern w in the language of X, we denote by Xw the set of elements of X not containing w. For strongly irreducible X and patterns w with shape a d-dimensional cube, we obtain upper and lower bounds on htop (X)−htop (Xw) dependent on the size of w. This extends a result of Lind for d=1 . We also apply our methods to an undecidability question in ℤd symbolic dynamics.


1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 42-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Baikoussis
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