Concatenations in subshifts defined by linear orders and poles of the Artin-Mazur zeta function

Abstract

For certain pairs of unimodal maps on the interval with periodic critical orbits, it is known that one can combine them to create another map whose entropy is close to one while the poles of Artin-Mazur $\zeta$ function outside the unit circles can be made close to the other. We provided a formulation and proof of this result in symbolic dynamics setting, which allow us to generalize this fact to certain families of maps on finite trees.