Entropy and finite generators for locally compact subshifts (Q4337808)

A locally compact subshift is an expansive homeomorphism \(S\) on a locally compact zero-dimensional Polish space \(X\). The authors define the periodic entropy \(h_{\text{per}} (S)\) to be the exponential growth rate of the number of fixed points of \(S^n\). They also define the transition entropy \(h_t(S,P)\) of \(S\) with respect to a generator \(P\) as the supremum over all exponential growth rates of the number of \(P\)-names of length \(n\) with fixed initial and final states, and the transition entropy by \(h_t(S)= \inf_Ph_t (S,P)\). Besides many interesting results concerning this notion of entropy (for example, its connection with Gurevich entropy), the paper contains two main results: (1) \(S\) has a presentation as a subshift of \(\mathbb{N}^\mathbb{Z}\) with a compact zero-partition with bounded degree if and only if the transition entropy is finite. (2) If the transition and the periodic entropies are finite, then for any \(\varepsilon >0\) there is a compact subshift \(T\) of finite topological entropy \(h_{\text{top}}(T) <\max \{h_t(S), h_{\text{per}} (S)\} +\varepsilon\) and the Artin-Mazur \(\zeta\)-functions agree, and there is a dense embedding of \(S\) into \(T\). The last result is used to derive an extension of \textit{W. Krieger}'s embedding theorem [ibid. 2, 195-202 (1982; Zbl 0508.54032)].