Escape of entropy for countable Markov shifts

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Abstract: In this paper we study ergodic theory of countable Markov shifts. These are dynamical systems defined over non-compact spaces. Our main result relates the escape of mass, the measure theoretic entropy, and the entropy at infinity of the system. This relation has several consequences. For example we obtain that the entropy map is upper semi-continuous and that the ergodic measures form an entropy dense subset. Our results also provide new proofs of results describing the existence and stability of the measure of maximal entropy. We relate the entropy at infinity with the Hausdorff dimension of the set of recurrent points that escape on average. Of independent interest, we prove a version of Katok's entropy formula in this non-compact setting.


The authors study countable Markov shifts. For such systems they prove the upper semi-continuous nature of the entropy map and the fact that the ergodic measures constitute an entropy dense subset. Let \((\Sigma, \sigma)\) be a transitive countable Markov shift with finite topological entropy. It is proved that \[ \limsup_{n\to \infty}h_{\mu_{n}}(\sigma)\leq |\mu |h_{\mu /|\mu|}(\sigma) + (1 -|\mu |)\delta_{\infty}, \] where \((\mu_{n})_n\) is a sequence of \(\sigma\)-invariant probability measures converging on cylinders to \(\mu\). If the sequence converges on cylinders to the zero measure then the right-hand-side is understood as \(\delta_{\infty}\). The authors prove that the topological entropy of the system at infinity is equal to the measure theoretic entropy at infinity. In this non-compact scenario, a variant of Katok's entropy formula is obtained. For every transitive finite entropy countable Markov shift, they further show that the entropy map is upper semi-continuous.



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