Periodic points in minimally supported surface-group graph subshifts

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Let Σ\Sigma be a surface group, let VV be a finite set, and let X⊂VΣX\subset V^{\Sigma} be the graph subshift defined by a finite graph G\mathcal G. A point x∈Xx\in X is periodic when its stabilizer has finite index in Σ\Sigma. The periodic-point conjecture. If there is a shift-invariant Borel probability measure μ\mu on XX such that Σ\Sigma acts minimally on the support of μ\mu, then XX contains a periodic point x∈Xx\in X. Moreover, if for some v∈Vv\in V one has

μ({x∈X∣x(id)=v})>0,\mu\bigl(\{x\in X\mid x(id)=v\}\bigr)>0,

then XX contains a periodic point x∈Xx\in X with x(id)=vx(id)=v. This is described as a discrete form of the preceding conjecture for hyperbolic tilings. The source gives no resolution, so the assertion remains open.

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Lewis Bowen, “Free Groups in Lattices”, arXiv:0802.0185 (2008).

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