On generators with infinite entropy

Abstract: Many years ago B.S. Pitskel observed that the metric entropy of the shift transformation in the sample space of a stationary random process

X = X_{n},, n i n m a t h b b Z

with a countable number of states is equal to the conditional entropy

H (X_{0} | X_{- 1}, X_{- 2}, d o t s)

if

X

is a stationary Markov chain (in which case the above conditional entropy is

H (X_{0} | X_{- 1}))

, whether the entropy

H (X_{0})

is finite or not, while in general the statement is not true. In this note we present a class of processes for which Pitskel's observation holds, despite the fact that no of these processes is a Markov chain of some order.

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