文摘
We introduce a new class of subshifts of sequences, called k-graph shifts, which expresses nested constraints on k symbols instead of on two symbols like for Dyck shifts. These shifts share many properties with Markov–Dyck shifts but are generally not conjugate to them. We prove that they are conjugate to sofic-Dyck shifts. We give a computation of the multivariate zeta function for this class of shifts.