Abstract. The general method of constructing an isomorphism between hyperbolic automorphisms of torus and symbolic shifts suggested by A. M. Vershik is considered. It turns out that this method is not applicable to a wide class of automorphisms, namely, those whose characteristic polynomial has at least two roots of different modulus outside the unit disk.

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