On the cohomology of homshifts

We study the cohomology of symbolic dynamical systems called homshifts: they are the nearest-neighbour Zᵈ shifts of finite type whose adjacency rules are the same in every direction. Building on the work of Klaus Schmidt (Pacific J. Math. 170 (1995), no.1, 237-269) we give a necessary and sufficient condition for their cohomological triviality. This condition is expressed in terms of the topology of a natural simplicial complex arising from the shift space which can be analyzed in many natural cases. However, we preove that in general, cohomological triviality is algorithmically undecidable for homshifts.