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2007.10889

Blur shift spaces

Tadeu Zavistanovicz de Almeida, Marcelo Sobottka

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Category
math.DS
Journal tier
Specialist/Solid
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Sep 28, 2025, 12:55 AM

Audit review

The paper’s Theorem 4.11 (Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon type characterization for blur shifts) is consistent and matches the framework developed earlier in the text. The candidate solution, however, makes critical topological mistakes: it asserts that every pseudo cylinder is open and that finitely defined sets are open, both of which contradict the paper’s definitions and remarks. It also implicitly uses global continuity of the shift map where it is known not to hold in general for blur shifts. Hence the equivalence proof offered by the model is not valid, while the paper’s statement and proof outline are sound.

Referee report (LaTeX)

\textbf{Recommendation:} no revision

\textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid

\textbf{Justification:}

The main theorem cleanly characterizes when generalized sliding block codes coincide with continuous shift-commuting maps in the blur-shift setting. The statement is consistent with earlier propositions, and the nontrivial boundary behavior is handled explicitly. The manuscript is technically sound; only minor presentational enhancements would further aid readers.