Motivic information (Q2000008)

The author's goal is ``to propose an information theoretic point of view in the context of motivic measures''. Motivic measures are meant in the paper as ``ring homomorphism from the Grothendieck ring of varieties to various other rings''. ``Notions of information/entropy and information loss associated to exponentiable motivic measures'' are introduced in the paper and it is shown that ``they satisfy appropriate analogs to the Khinchin-type properties that characterize information loss in the context of measures on finite sets''.