Research

I am interested in theorems. Recently I have been working on entropy-type invariants and isomorphism questions for some skew products. In addition, part of my work is related to the open problem of classifying the Medvedev degrees (a notion of complexity) of subshifts of finite type on finitely generated groups. This program has taken me into questions in effective graph theory and has led to new examples of groups without a generic Cantor system.

Submitted

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    Isomorphisms and slow entropy of deterministic $[T,T^{-1}]$ systems
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas
    2026
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    Medvedev degrees of SFTs on cocompact Fuchsian groups
    Sebastián Barbieri, Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas, and Paul Toussaint
    2026
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    The strong topological Rokhlin property and Medvedev degrees of SFTs
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas
    2026
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    Parametrized complexity of relations between multidimensional subshifts
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas, Benjamin Hellouin Menibus, and Rémi Pallen
    2025
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    Topological slow entropy, sequence entropy, and generalized $[T,T^{-1}]$ systems
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas
    2025
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    The automorphism group of a strongly irreducible subshift on a group
    Sebastián Barbieri, Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas, and Paola Rivera-Burgos
    2025

Accepted

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    Translation-like actions by $\mathbb{Z}$, the subgroup membership problem, and Medvedev degrees of effective subshifts
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas
    Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 2026
    Note: there is a small gap in the proof of Lemma 3.2 in the journal version, which is corrected in the arXiv version.
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    Effective dynamical systems beyond dimension zero and factors of SFTs
    Sebastián Barbieri, Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas, and Cristóbal Rojas
    Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 2025
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    Medvedev degrees of subshifts on groups
    Sebastián Barbieri, and Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas
    Theoretical Computer Science, 2026
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    On a Rice theorem for dynamical properties of SFTs on groups
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas
    Archiv der Mathematik, 2025
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    Paths, ends and the separation problem for infinite graphs
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas, Valentino Delle Rose, and Cristóbal Rojas
    Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2026
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    Infinite Eulerian paths are computable on graphs with vertices of infinite degree
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas
    Computability, 2026

PhD Thesis

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    Subshifts on groups and computable analysis
    Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas
    2024