Sofic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Whose forbidden words form a regular language. not-comparable

    "a sofic subshift"

Etymology

Coined by mathematician Benjamin Weiss in 1973, based on Hebrew סופי (“finite”).

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cayley graph

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