An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding

Douglas Lind is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Washington. He was department chair, is an Inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and served in many governance roles for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, including chairing the committee that designed the 2006 addition. Brian Marcus is Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. He shared the 1993 Leonard Abraham Prize Paper award of the IEEE Communications Society. He is currently the UBC Site Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and is a Fellow of the AMS and IEEE.

• 1. Shift spaces; 2. Shifts of finite type; 3. Sofic shifts; 4. Entropy; 5. Finite-state codes; 6. Shifts as dynamical systems; 7. Conjugacy; 8. Finite-to-one codes and finite equivalence; 9. Degrees of codes and almost conjugacy; 10. Embeddings and factor codes; 11. Realization; 12. Equal entropy factors; 13. Guide to advanced topics; Addendum for the second edition; Bibliography; Addendum bibliography; Notation index; Index.

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