Conceptsymbolic dynamics
Symbolic Dynamics
A branch of mathematics studying dynamical systems formed from sequences of discrete symbols, with typical examples including shift spaces over finite alphabets and their subshifts, used to characterize structures such as aperiodic order.
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Aperiodic order studies systems that are neither fully periodic nor lacking in highly ordered structure, and is closely related to quasicrystals, symbolic dynamics, and spectral theory.
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