Ergodic properties and KMS conditions on \(C^*\)-symbolic dynamical systems (Q532781)

Summary: A \(C^*\)-symbolic dynamical system \(({\mathcal A}, \rho, \Sigma)\) consists of a unital \(C^*\)-algebra \({\mathcal A}\) and a finite family \(\rho_\alpha\), \(\alpha \in \Sigma\), of endomorphisms \(\rho_\alpha \) of \({\mathcal A}\) indexed by symbols \(\alpha\) of \(\Sigma\) satisfying some conditions. The endomorphisms \(\rho_\alpha\) yield both a subshift \(\Lambda_\rho\) and a \(C^*\)-algebra \({\mathcal O}_\rho\). We study ergodic properties of the positive operator \(\lambda_\rho = \sum_{\alpha \in \Sigma}\rho_\alpha\) on \({\mathcal A}\). We next introduce KMS conditions for continuous linear functionals on \({\mathcal O}_\rho\) under the gauge action at inverse temperature taking its value in the complex numbers. We study relationships among the eigenvectors of \(\lambda_\rho\) in \({\mathcal A}^*\), the continuous linear functionals on \({\mathcal O}_\rho\) satisfying KMS conditions and the invariant measures on the associated one-sided shifts. We finally present several examples of continuous linear functionals satisfying KMS conditions.