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On generators with infinite entropy

Dynamical Systems 2016-06-03 v1

Abstract

Many years ago B.S. Pitskel observed that the metric entropy of the shift transformation in the sample space of a stationary random process X={Xn,nZ}X=\{X_n,\,n\in \mathbb Z\} with a countable number of states is equal to the conditional entropy H(X0X1,X2,)H(X_0|X_{-1},X_{-2},\dots) if XX is a stationary Markov chain (in which case the above conditional entropy is H(X0X1))H(X_0|X_{-1})), whether the entropy H(X0)H(X_0) is finite or not, while in general the statement is not true. In this note we present a class of processes for which Pitskel's observation holds, despite the fact that no of these processes is a Markov chain of some order.

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@article{arxiv.1606.00584,
  title  = {On generators with infinite entropy},
  author = {Boris Gurevich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.00584},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages

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