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Strong Approximations of Shifts and the Characteristic Measures Problem

Dynamical Systems 2023-07-14 v1

Abstract

Every symbolic system supports a Borel measure that is invariant under the shift, but it is not known if every such systems supports a measure that is invariant under all of its automorphisms; known as a characteristic measure. We give sufficient conditions to find a characteristic measure, additionally showing when it can be taken to be a measure of maximal entropy. The class of systems to which these sufficient conditions apply is large, containing a dense GδG_{\delta} set in the space of all shifts on a given alphabet, and is also large in the sense that it is closed under taking factors. We also investigate natural systems to which these sufficient conditions apply.

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@article{arxiv.2307.06451,
  title  = {Strong Approximations of Shifts and the Characteristic Measures Problem},
  author = {Van Cyr and Bryna Kra and Samuel Petite},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06451},
  year   = {2023}
}