1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480935603321

Titolo

Symbolic dynamics and its applications / / Peter Walters, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1992]

©1992

ISBN

0-8218-7726-7

0-8218-5470-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 135

Disciplina

514/.74

Soggetti

Symbolic dynamics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of a conference held at Yale University, from July 28 to August 2, 1991 in honor of Roy L. Adler.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Introduction""; ""Program of the conference""; ""List of participants""; ""The torus and the disk""; ""On the work of Roy Adler in ergodic theory and dynamical systems""; ""The impact of Roy Adler's work on symbolic dynamics and applications to data storage""; ""LR conjugacies of shifts of finite type are uniquely so""; ""A polynomial-time algorithm for deciding the forcing relation on cyclic permutations""; ""Fully positive topological entropy and topological mixing""; ""The stochastic shift equivalence conjecture is false""; ""Predictions with automata""

""Common closing extensions and finitary regular isomorphism for synchronized systems""""Covers for coded systems""; ""Z-numbers and β-transformations""; ""Quasisymmetric conjugacies for some one-dimensional maps inducing expansion""; ""A monotonicity property in one dimensional dynamics""; ""Finiteness of conjugacy classes of restricted block upper triangular matrices""; ""Polynomials with a positive power""; ""Spectral radii of primitive integral companion matrices and log concave polynomials""; ""Self-replicating tilings""; ""Markov subgroups of (Z/2Z)z2""

""On the dimension of some graphs""""Synchronizing prefix codes and automata and the road coloring problem""; ""A zero entropy, mixing of all orders tiling system""; ""A cocycle equation for shifts""; ""In general a



degree 2 map is an automorphism""; ""Zn versus Z actions for systems of finite type""; ""Principal vectors of commuting block maps""; ""On the recurrence of countable topological Markov chains""; ""Substitutions, adic transformations, and beta-expansions""; ""Finitary isomorphism of m-dependent processes""; ""Constant-to-one factor maps and dimension groups""

""Faces of Markov chains and matrices of polynomials""""Classification of subshifts of finite type revisited""; ""Strong shift equivalence of matrices in GL(2, Z)""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797704803321

Titolo

The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624 / / edited by Peter C. Mancall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

979-88-908816-1-8

1-4696-0091-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (609 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

975.5/02

Soggetti

Acculturation - America - History

Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Congresses

America History To 1810 Congresses

Great Britain Colonies America History 16th century Congresses

Great Britain Colonies America History 17th century Congresses

Europe Colonies America History Congresses

Virginia Ethnic relations History 16th century Congresses

Virginia Ethnic relations History 17th century Congresses

America Ethnic relations History 16th century Congresses

America Ethnic relations History 17th century Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: NATIVE AMERICAN SETTINGS; Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World; Between Old World and New: Oconee Valley Residents and the Spanish Southeast, 1540-1621; Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace; PART TWO: AFRICA AND THE ATLANTIC; The Caravel and the Caravan: Reconsidering Received Wisdom in the Sixteenth-Century Sahara; The Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic World; Central African Leadership and the Appropriation of European Culture; African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic

PART THREE: EUROPEAN MODELSThe Multinational Commodification of Tobacco, 1492-1650: An Iberian Perspective; Revisioning the ''French Atlantic'': or, How to Think about the French Presence in the Atlantic, 1550-1625; Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Cultures in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries; Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean; PART FOUR: INTELLECTUAL CURRENTS; Moral Uncertainty in the Dispossession of Native Americans; Discourses of Western Planting: Richard Hakluyt and the Making of the Atlantic World

Reading Ralegh's America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic WorldThe Genius of Ancient Britain; PART FIVE: THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND VIRGINIA, 1550-1624; Imperfect Understandings: Rumor, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Early Virginia; The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia; Virginia and the Atlantic World; Conference Program; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Notes on the Contributors