We study dynamical systems acting on the path space of a stationary (non-simple) Bratteli diagram. For such systems we explicitly describe all ergodic probability measures invariant with respect to the tail equivalence relation (or the Vershik map). These measures are completely described by the incidence matrix of the diagram. Since such diagrams correspond to substitution dynamical systems, this description gives an algorithm for finding invariant probability measures for aperiodic non-minimal substitution systems. Several corollaries of these results are obtained. In particular, we show that the invariant measures are not mixing and give a criterion for a complex number to be an eigenvalue for the Vershik map.
We consider Bratteli diagrams of finite rank (not necessarily simple) and ergodic invariant measures with respect to the cofinal equivalence relation on their path spaces. It is shown that every ergodic invariant measure (finite or "regular" infinite) is obtained by an extension from a simple subdiagram. We further investigate quantitative properties of these measures, which are mainly determined by the asymptotic behavior of products of incidence matrices. A number of sufficient conditions for unique ergodicity are obtained. One of these is a condition of exact finite rank, which parallels a similar notion in measurable dynamics. Several examples illustrate the broad range of possible behavior of finite type diagrams and invariant measures on them. We then prove that the Vershik map on the path space of an exact finite rank diagram cannot be strongly mixing, independent of the ordering. On the other hand, for the so-called "consecutive" ordering, the Vershik map is not strongly mixing on all finite rank diagrams.MSC: 37B05, 37A25, 37A20.
In the paper we study aperiodic substitutional dynamical systems arisen from non-primitive substitutions. We prove that the Vershik homeomorphism ϕ of a stationary ordered Bratteli diagram is homeomorphic to an aperiodic substitutional system if and only if no restriction of ϕ to a minimal component is homeomorphic to an odometer. We also show that every aperiodic substitutional system generated by a substitution with nesting property is homeomorphic to the Vershik map of a stationary ordered Bratteli diagram. It is proved that every aperiodic substitutional system is recognizable. The classes of m-primitive substitutions and associated to them derivative substitutions are studied. We discuss also the notion of expansiveness for Cantor dynamical systems of finite rank.
Abstract. Given a Bratteli diagram B, we study the set O B of all possible orderings on B and its subset P B consisting of perfect orderings that produce Bratteli-Vershik topological dynamical systems (Vershik maps). We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the ordering ω to be perfect. On the other hand, a wide class of non-simple Bratteli diagrams that do not admit Vershik maps is explicitly described. In the case of finite rank Bratteli diagrams, we show that the existence of perfect orderings with a prescribed number of extreme paths constrains significantly the values of the entries of the incidence matrices and the structure of the diagram B. Our proofs are based on the new notions of skeletons and associated graphs, defined and studied in the paper. For a Bratteli diagram B of rank k, we endow the set O B with product measure µ and prove that there is some 1 ≤ j ≤ k such that µ-almost all orderings on B have j maximal and j minimal paths. If j is strictly greater than the number of minimal components that B has, then µ-almost all orderings are imperfect.
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