On the measure-theoretic entropy and topological pressure of free semigroup actions

In this paper we introduce the notions of topological pressure and measure-theoretic entropy for a free semigroup action. Suppose that a free semigroup acts on a compact metric space by continuous self-maps. To this action we assign a skew-product transformation whose fiber topological pressure is t...

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Published inErgodic theory and dynamical systems Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 686 - 716
Main Authors LIN, XIAOGANG, MA, DONGKUI, WANG, YUPAN
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.04.2018
Subjects
Affine transformations
Entropy
Metric space
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Transformations (mathematics)
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Summary:In this paper we introduce the notions of topological pressure and measure-theoretic entropy for a free semigroup action. Suppose that a free semigroup acts on a compact metric space by continuous self-maps. To this action we assign a skew-product transformation whose fiber topological pressure is taken to be the topological pressure of the initial action. Some properties of these two notions are given, followed by two main results. One is the relationship between the topological pressure of the skew-product transformation and the topological pressure of the free semigroup action, the other is the partial variational principle about the topological pressure. Moreover, we apply this partial variational principle to study the measure-theoretic entropy and the topological entropy of finite affine transformations on a metrizable group.
ISSN:0143-3857
1469-4417
DOI:10.1017/etds.2016.41