We prove that whenever A is a 3-conservative relational structure with only
binary and unary relations then the algebra of polymorphisms of A either has no
Taylor operation (i.e. CSP(A) is NP-complete), or generates a congruence meet
semidistributive variety (i.e. CSP(A) has bounded width).
The paper gives a characterisation of the chain relation of a sofic subshift.
Every sofic subshift $\Sigma$ can be described by a labelled graph $G$.
Factorising $G$ in a suitable way we obtain the graph $G/_\approx$ that offers
insight into some properties of the original subshift. Using $G/_\approx$ we
describe first the chain relation in $\Sigma$, then characterise
chain-transitive sofic subshifts, chain-mixing sofic subshifts and finally the
attractors of the subshift dynamic system.
We investigate the continuity of the \omega-functions and real functions
defined by weighted finite automata (WFA). We concentrate on the case of
average preserving WFA. We show that every continuous \omega-function definable
by some WFA can be defined by an average preserving WFA and then characterize
minimal average preserving WFA whose \omega-function or \omega-function and
real function are continuous.
Moebius number systems represent points using sequences of Moebius
transformations. Thorough the paper, we are mainly interested in representing
the unit circle (which is equivalent to representing R\cup\{\infty\}).
Moebius number systems represent points using sequences of Moebius
transformations. Thorough the paper, we are mainly interested in representing
the unit circle (which is equivalent to representing R\cup\{\infty\}).