The strongly aperiodic SFT conjecture
The strongly aperiodic SFT conjecture
Let be a finitely generated group. A strongly aperiodic subshift of finite type (SFT) is an SFT with no periodic configurations. The strongly aperiodic SFT conjecture. admits a strongly aperiodic SFT if and only if is one-ended and has decidable word problem. The general case remains widely open, although the claim is known for virtually polycyclic, solvable Baumslag–Solitar, hyperbolic, and lamplighter groups.
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Primary source
Solène J. Esnay, Ugo Giocanti and Etienne Moutot, “Period-rigidity of one-relator groups”, arXiv:2502.03602 (2025).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2406.04132, arXiv:1904.03907.
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