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Typicality and entropy of processes on infinite trees

Probability 2021-12-07 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Consider a uniformly sampled random dd-regular graph on nn vertices. If dd is fixed and nn goes to \infty then we can relate typical (large probability) properties of such random graph to a family of invariant random processes (called "typical" processes) on the infinite dd-regular tree TdT_d. This correspondence between ergodic theory on TdT_d and random regular graphs is already proven to be fruitful in both directions. This paper continues the investigation of typical processes with a special emphasis on entropy. We study a natural notion of micro-state entropy for invariant processes on TdT_d. It serves as a quantitative refinement of the notion of typicality and is tightly connected to the asymptotic free energy in statistical physics. Using entropy inequalities, we provide new sufficient conditions for typicality for edge Markov processes. We also extend these notions and results to processes on unimodular Galton-Watson random trees.

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@article{arxiv.2102.02653,
  title  = {Typicality and entropy of processes on infinite trees},
  author = {Ágnes Backhausz and Charles Bordenave and Balázs Szegedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02653},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages

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