Zero Krengel entropy does not kill Poisson entropy

Entropy and other invariants (28D20) Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Nonsingular (and infinite-measure preserving) transformations (37A40)

Abstract: We prove that the notions of Krengel entropy and Poisson entropy for infinite-measure-preserving transformations do not always coincide: We construct a conservative infinite-measure-preserving transformation with zero Krengel entropy (the induced transformation on a set of measure 1 is the Von Neumann-Kakutani odometer), but whose associated Poisson suspension has positive entropy.

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For a transformation \(T\) with an infinite invariant measure, there are different notions of entropy which extend the Kolmogorov entropy of a probability measure preserving transformation.NEWLINENEWLINEThe definition by U. Krengel uses the supremum of the normalized entropy of the transformations induced by \(T\) on sets of finite measure. There are two other definitions, one by W. Parry based on the conditional entropy and a third one, ``the Poisson entropy introduced by E. Roy, using the entropy of a probability measure preserving a transformation \(T_*\) canonically associated to \(T\), its ``Poisson suspension. It is known that the Parry entropy is less than or equal to the Krengel entropy and to the Poisson entropy. For large classes of transformations, the three entropies coincide.NEWLINENEWLINEA natural question is the existence of a conservative infinite-measure-preserving transformation \(T\) with zero Krengel entropy, but whose associated Poisson suspension has positive entropy.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors give a positive answer by constructing a transformation \(T\), a tower over the Von Neumann-Kakutani odometer, such that the associated \(T_*\) has positive Kolmogorov entropy.NEWLINENEWLINEAn important tool is the \(\overline d\)-distance between stationary processes introduced by Ornstein. It is shown that, for a suitable choice of the parameters in the construction of \(T\), the stationary process ``living in the Poisson suspension of \(T\) is close for the \(\overline d\)-distance to an i.i.d. sequence of random Poisson variables. This implies the positivity of the entropy of \(T_*\).NEWLINENEWLINEComments and open questions conclude the paper.

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