On asymptotic properties of equilibrium measures corresponding to finite submatrices of infinite nonnegative matrices (Q372891)

Suppose that \(\mathcal{N}=\{1,\ldots,n\}\) or \(\mathcal{N}=\mathbb{N}\) and \(A=(a_{ij})_{\mathcal{N}\times\mathcal{N}}\) is a (possibly infinite) matrix with nonnegative entries. It is convenient to identify such an \(A\) with a countable weighted graph \((G_A,\mathcal{W})\), where \(G_A=(\mathcal{N},E)\), \(E=\{(i,j)\in\mathcal{N}\times\mathcal{N}:a_{ij}>0\}\) is a graph and \(\mathcal{W}\) given by \(\mathcal{W}(i,j)=a_{ij}\) is a weight function. Under some assumptions on \(A\) there is a corresponding and unique Markov measure (an \textit{equilibrium measure}) on the space of all bi-infinite walks on \(G_A\) (identified with a subset of \(\mathcal{N}^\mathbb{Z}\)) which is invariant with respect to translation (shifting the origin of a walk) and satisfies a certain variational principle. Given such an infinite matrix \(A\) with an equilibrium measure \(\mu\), one can approximate \(A\) by a sequence of finite matrices \(A_n\). It is then natural to ask whether the sequence \(\mu_n\) such that \((\mu_n)_n\) is the equilibrium measure associated to \(A_n\) tends to \(\mu\). The authors present a class of matrices described in the geometric language of the corresponding graphs \(G_A\) such that the answer depends on \((A_n)_n\): for each matrix in this class there is a sequence \(A_n\) approximating \(A\) such that \(\mu_n\) tends to \(\mu\) and there is another sequence such that this is not true.