Scale function vs topological entropy

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2013.07.026MaRDI QIDQ386845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Federico Berlai, Dikran Dikranjan, Anna Giordano Bruno

Publication date 11 December 2013

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1749

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismscale functiontopological entropytotally disconnected locally compact group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) Topological entropy (37B40) Entropy in general topology (54C70) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11)

Abstract: In the realm of topological automorphisms of totally disconnected locally compact groups, the scale function introduced by Willis in cite{Willis} is compared with the topological entropy. We prove that the logarithm of the scale function is always dominated by the topological entropy and we provide examples showing that this inequality can be strict. Moreover, we give a condition equivalent to the equality between these two invariants. Various properties of the scale function, inspired by those of the topological entropy, are presented.

Review text

The authors prove that the topological entropy of a topological automorphism of a totally disconnected group is an upper bound of the logarithm of the scale function of the group. The scale function of automorphism was introduced by Willis and was calculated for \(p\)-adic Lie groups and linear groups over local fields. The topological entropy defined in the way of \textit{R. L. Adler} et al. [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 114, 309--319 (1965; Zbl 0127.13102)], as well as Bowen, is a concept amply known. The problem of having a control on the entropy is an interesting and very well developed problem. Let \(G\) be a totally disconnected locally compact group and let \(\phi:G\to G\) be a topological automorphism, the scale function of \(G\) is defined as NEWLINE\[NEWLINEs_G(\phi)=\min\{[\phi(U):U\cap\phi(U)] : U\in\mathcal B(G)\},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \([H_1 : H_2 ]\) means the index of \(H_1\) in \(H_2\), and \(\mathcal B(G)\) is the set of open compact subgroups of \(G\): One of the authors has obtained a formula for the topological entropy of \(\phi\) in terms of the index of subgroups, let NEWLINE\[NEWLINEH_{\mathrm{top}}(\phi,U)=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\log[U:U_{-n}]}{n},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(U_{-n}=\bigcap_{k=-n}^0 \phi^k(U)\), then NEWLINE\[NEWLINEh_{\mathrm{top}}(\phi)=\sup\{H_{\mathrm{top}}(\phi,U):U\in\mathcal B(G)\}.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE This formula can be used to compare the topological entropy with the scale function.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main result (Theorem 3.1) of the article is NEWLINE\[NEWLINEs_G(\phi)\leq h_{\mathrm{top}}(\phi).NEWLINE\]NEWLINE An example is provided in which the inequality is strict; this is a Bernoulli space of sequences in \(\mathbb Z(p)\), \(p\) prime, indexed by \(\mathbb Z\). Also it is proved under which conditions it has an equality.

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• Topological entropy for locally linearly compact vector spaces and field extensions
• Topological entropy in totally disconnected locally compact groups
• Inertial properties in groups
• Finiteness of topological entropy for locally compact abelian groups
• Topological entropy for automorphisms of totally disconnected locally compact groups
• Entropy on normed semigroups (towards a unifying approach to entropy)
• Adjoint algebraic entropy.

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