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Bernoulli shifts with bases of equal entropy are isomorphic

Dynamical Systems 2018-05-23 v1 Probability

Abstract

We prove that if GG is a countably infinite group and (L,λ)(L, \lambda) and (K,κ)(K, \kappa) are probability spaces having equal Shannon entropy, then the Bernoulli shifts G(LG,λG)G \curvearrowright (L^G, \lambda^G) and G(KG,κG)G \curvearrowright (K^G, \kappa^G) are isomorphic. This extends Ornstein's famous isomorphism theorem to all countably infinite groups. Our proof builds on a slightly weaker theorem by Lewis Bowen in 2011 that required both λ\lambda and κ\kappa have at least 33 points in their support. We furthermore produce finitary isomorphisms in the case where both LL and KK are finite.

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@article{arxiv.1805.08279,
  title  = {Bernoulli shifts with bases of equal entropy are isomorphic},
  author = {Brandon Seward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08279},
  year   = {2018}
}