Sofic entropy and amenable groups

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Abstract: In previous work, I introduced a measure-conjugacy invariant for sofic group actions called sofic entropy. Here it is proven that the sofic entropy of an amenable group action equals its classical entropy. The proof uses a new measure-conjugacy invariant called upper-sofic entropy and a theorem of Rudolph and Weiss for the entropy of orbit-equivalent actions relative to the orbit change sigma-algebra.


Sofic groups were introduced implicitly by \textit{M. Gromov} [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 1, No. 2, 109--197 (1999; Zbl 0998.14001)] and explicitly by \textit{B. Weiss} [Sankhyā, Ser. A 62, No. 3, 350--359 (2000; Zbl 1148.37302)]; both residually finite and amenable groups are sofic. The author [J. Am. Math. Soc. 23, No. 1, 217--245 (2010; Zbl 1201.37005)] introduced a new family of entropy-like invariants for measurable isomorphisms of actions of sofic groups. Here it is shown that this sofic entropy coincides with the classical entropy for actions of amenable groups. The proof involves the creation of a new invariant of measurable isomorphism, the upper-sofic entropy, and the deep work of \textit{D. J. Rudolph} and \textit{B. Weiss} [Ann. Math. (2) 151, No. 3, 1119--1150 (2000; Zbl 0957.37003)] developing entropy theory for orbit equivalences of amenable group actions relative to the orbit-change algebra.




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