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In this paper we consider ℤd-actions, d ≥ 1, by automorphisms of compact connected abelian groups which contain at least one expansive automorphism (such actions are called algebraic ℤd-actions of expansive rank one). If α is such a ℤd-action on an infinite compact connected abelian group X, then every expansive element an of this action has a dense group \( {\Delta _{{a^n}}}\left( X \right)\) of homoclinic points. For different expansive elements αm, αn these groups are generally different and may have zero intersection. By obtaining an appropriate structure formula we prove that these groups are canonically isomorphic for different m, n, and that the restriction of a to any of these groups defines by duality another algebraic ℤd-action α* of expansive rank one on a compact connected abelian group X*, called the adjoint action of α. The second adjoint α** = (α*)*obtained by repeating this construction is algebraically conjugate to α.
A class of examples of algebraic ℤd-actions of expansive rank one is obtained by fixing a d-tuple c of algebraic numbers consisting not entirely of roots of unity and by associating with it a finite set Sc of places of the algebraic number field K = K(c) generated by the entries of c. For every Sc-integral ideal J in K we define an algebraic ℤd-actions α expansive rank one on a compact connected abelian group. In this case the adjoint action α* arises from the inverse ideal class J -1 of J. If J,J are two Sc-integral ideals, then the algebraic ℤd-actions arising from them are algebraically conjugate if and only if the ideals lie in the same ideal class.
Earlier work in this direction can be found in [4], [6] and [11].
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Einsiedler, M., Schmidt, K. (2002). Irreducibility, Homoclinic Points and Adjoint Actions of Algebraic ℤd-Actions of Rank One. In: Maass, A., Martínez, S., San Martín, J. (eds) Dynamics and Randomness. Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0345-2_4
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