On spatial entropy of multi-dimensional symbolic dynamical systems

Abstract: The commonly used spatial entropy

h_{r} (m a t h c a l U)

of the multi-dimensional shift space

m a t h c a l U

is the limit of growth rate of admissible local patterns on finite rectangular sublattices which expands to whole space

m a t h b b Z^{d}

,

d g e q 2

. This work studies spatial entropy

h_{O m e g a} (m a t h c a l U)

of shift space

m a t h c a l U

on general expanding system

O m e g a = {O m e g a (n)}_{n = 1}^{i n f t y}

where

O m e g a (n)

is increasing finite sublattices and expands to

m a t h b b Z^{d}

.

O m e g a

is called genuinely

d

-dimensional if

O m e g a (n)

contains no lower-dimensional part whose size is comparable to that of its

d

-dimensional part. We show that

h_{r} (m a t h c a l U)

is the supremum of

h_{O m e g a} (m a t h c a l U)

for all genuinely two-dimensional

O m e g a

. Furthermore, when

O m e g a

is genuinely

d

-dimensional and satisfies certain conditions, then

h_{O m e g a} (m a t h c a l U) = h_{r} (m a t h c a l U)

. On the contrary, when

O m e g a (n)

contains a lower-dimensional part, then

h_{r} (m a t h c a l U) < h_{O m e g a} (m a t h c a l U)

for some

m a t h c a l U

. Therefore,

h_{r} (m a t h c a l U)

is appropriate to be the

d

-dimensional spatial entropy.

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