Weak finitarity conjecture for Pisot units

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Let β\beta be a Pisot unit, meaning an algebraic integer greater than 11 whose other algebraic conjugates have modulus less than 11 and whose norm is a unit. Call β\beta weakly finitary if, for every δ>0\delta>0 and every x∈Z[β]+x\in\mathbb{Z}[\beta]_+, there exists f∈Fin⁡(β)∩(0,δ)f\in\operatorname{Fin}(\beta)\cap(0,\delta) such that x+f∈Fin⁡(β)x+f\in\operatorname{Fin}(\beta), where Fin⁡(β)\operatorname{Fin}(\beta) is the set of nonnegative real numbers having finite greedy β\beta-expansions. Weak finitarity conjecture. Every Pisot unit is weakly finitary. Weak finitarity is introduced as an arithmetic condition relevant to bijective arithmetic codings; the passage describes this conjecture as apparently very difficult and reports it as shared by most experts, with no resolution supplied.

References

Primary source

Nikita Sidorov, “Arithmetic Dynamics”, arXiv:math/0203024 (2002).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2000–2002). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0006159.

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