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
Isomorphisms and slow entropy of deterministic $[T,T^{-1}]$ systems
@preprint{carrascovargas2026isomorphismsslowentropy,title={Isomorphisms and slow entropy of deterministic $[T,T^{-1}]$ systems},author={Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor},year={2026},}
Medvedev degrees of SFTs on cocompact Fuchsian groups
Sebastián Barbieri, Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas, and Paul Toussaint
@preprint{fuchsian,title={Medvedev degrees of SFTs on cocompact Fuchsian groups},author={Barbieri, Sebastián and Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor and Toussaint, Paul},year={2026},}
The strong topological Rokhlin property and Medvedev degrees of SFTs
@preprint{carrascovargas2025parametrizedcomplexityrelationsmultidimensional,title={Parametrized complexity of relations between multidimensional subshifts},author={Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor and de Menibus, Benjamin Hellouin and Pallen, Rémi},year={2025},}
Topological slow entropy, sequence entropy, and generalized $[T,T^{-1}]$ systems
@preprint{barbieri2025automorphismgroupstronglyirreducible,title={The automorphism group of a strongly irreducible subshift on a group},author={Barbieri, Sebastián and Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor and Rivera-Burgos, Paola},year={2025},}
Accepted
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.
@article{carrascovargas2023geometric,title={Translation-like actions by $\mathbb{Z}$, the subgroup membership problem, and Medvedev degrees of effective subshifts},author={Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor},journal={Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics},year={2026},pages={307-340},doi={DOI 10.4171/GGD/817},note={Note: there is a small gap in the proof of Lemma 3.2 in the journal version, which is corrected in the arXiv version.}}
Effective dynamical systems beyond dimension zero and factors of SFTs
Sebastián Barbieri, Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas, and Cristóbal Rojas
@article{BARBIERI_CARRASCO-VARGAS_ROJAS_2024,title={Effective dynamical systems beyond dimension zero and factors of SFTs},author={Barbieri, Sebastián and Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor and Rojas, Cristóbal},journal={Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems},year={2025},doi={10.1017/etds.2024.79},pages={1329–1369},volume={45},number={5},}
@article{barbieri2024medvedev,title={Medvedev degrees of subshifts on groups},author={Barbieri, Sebastián and Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor},journal={Theoretical Computer Science},volume={1086},year={2026},pages={116251},doi={10.1016/j.tcs.2026.116251},}
On a Rice theorem for dynamical properties of SFTs on groups
@article{carrascovargas2024rice,title={On a Rice theorem for dynamical properties of SFTs on groups},author={Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor},journal={Archiv der Mathematik},doi={https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-025-02125-x},year={2025},volume={124},issue={6},number={591-603},}
Paths, ends and the separation problem for infinite graphs
Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas, Valentino Delle Rose, and Cristóbal Rojas
@article{carrascovargas2024complexityeulerianpathproblem,title={Paths, ends and the separation problem for infinite graphs},author={Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor and Rose, Valentino Delle and Rojas, Cristóbal},journal={Discrete Applied Mathematics},doi={10.1016/j.dam.2026.02.004},year={2026},volume={386},pages={139-155},}
Infinite Eulerian paths are computable on graphs with vertices of infinite degree
@article{carrascovargas2023characterization,title={Infinite Eulerian paths are computable on graphs with vertices of infinite degree},author={Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor},journal={Computability},volume={14},issue={2},number={95-110},doi={https://doi.org/10.1177/22113568251359095},}
@phdthesis{thesis,title={Subshifts on groups and computable analysis},author={Carrasco-Vargas, Nicanor},year={2024},school={Pontifical Catholic University of Chile},type={PhD Thesis},doi={https://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/MAT/88339},}