A Cantor dynamical system is slow if and only if all its finite orbits are attracting

Abstract

In this paper, we completely solve the problem when a Cantor dynamical system $(X,f)$ can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}$ with vanishing derivative everywhere. For this purpose, we construct a refining sequence of marked clopen partitions of $X$ which is adapted to a dynamical system of this kind. It turns out that there is a huge class of such systems.