BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"> <br>Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010<br>Time: 2:50-3:50pm<br>Place: Library North 2205 followed by coffee/tea in the Anderson<br>
Reading Room. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> <br>Speaker: Dave McCune (Nebraska)</div><div class="gmail_quote">Title: Semigroups arising from asynchronous automata<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> <br>Abstract: Groups and semigroups generated by synchronous automata have been well-studied, particularly since the early 1980’s. An interesting generalization of these semigroups is the class of semigroups generated by asynchronous automata. In this talk we will discuss semigroups generated by asynchronous automata, primarily restricting to a new class of semigroups generated by a subclass of asynchronous automata which includes synchronous automata. We call this new class of semigroups “expanding automaton semigroups.” We show that the class of semigroups generated by synchronous automata is strictly contained in the class of expanding automaton semigroups, and that the class of expanding automaton semigroups is strictly contained in the class of semigroups generated by asynchronous automata. As with groups and semigroups generated by synchronous automata, expanding automaton semigroups act on regular rooted trees. We show that undecidability arises in the dynamics of these actions, and use this to show that undecidability arises when trying to understand the fixed point sets of asynchronous automaton semigroups.<br>
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