Dynamical properties of the Pascal adic transformation

We study the dynamics of a transformation that acts on infinite pathsin the graph associated with Pascal's triangle. For each ergodicinvariant measure the asymptotic law of the return time to cylindersis given by a step function. We construct a representation of thesystem by a subshift on a two-symbol alphabet and then prove that thecomplexity function of this subshift is asymptotic to a cubic, thefrequencies of occurrence of blocks behave in a regular manner, andthe subshift is topologically weak mixing.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00000765
Author Méla, Xavier, Petersen, Karl
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Last Updated May 31, 2026, 05:30 (UTC)
Created May 31, 2026, 05:30 (UTC)
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contributor Institut de mathématiques de Luminy (IML) ; Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Méla, Xavier
date 2003-10-20T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
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