📅 seminar

Limit of Rauzy graphs

📅 December 1, 2025
📍 ICM Lecture Hall(Room 240A, Taizhou Hall)

Event Information

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Start Time
December 1, 2025 at 04:30 PM
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End Time
December 1, 2025 at 05:30 PM
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Venue
ICM Lecture Hall(Room 240A, Taizhou Hall)

Speaker Information

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Name
Paul-Henry Leemann
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Institution
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Abstract

To any language LAL \subseteq A^* one can naturally associate an infinite family of finite graphs RL(n)R_L(n), called the Rauzy graphs of LL. Vertices of RL(n)R_L(n) are words of length n in L, while edges represent overlaps and are words of length n+1. If L=AL=A^*, then the corresponding Rauzy graphs are well-known under the name of de Bruijn graphs. Since we have an infinite family, it is natural to ask if the limit of the RL(n)R_L(n) exists, and if yes if it can be computed from L. In this talk, we will answer this question for L=A^*, for languages of subexponential complexity, and partially for subshifts of finite type. In each case, the limit can be expressed as an horocyclic product of trees, which can be explicitly computed from L. This is partially joint work with Rostislav Grigorchuk, Tatiana Nagnibeda, Alexandra Skripchenko and Georgii Veprev.