Zero entropy is generic
Dynamical Systems
2016-05-20 v2
Abstract
Dan Rudolph showed that for an amenable group , the generic measure-preserving action of on a Lebesgue space has zero entropy. Here this is extended to nonamenable groups. In fact, the proof shows that every action is a factor of a zero entropy action! This uses the strange phenomena that in the presence of nonamenability, entropy can increase under a factor map. The proof uses Seward's recent generalization of Sinai's Factor Theorem, the Gaboriau-Lyons result and my theorem that for every nonabelian free group, all Bernoulli shifts factor onto each other.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.02621,
title = {Zero entropy is generic},
author = {Lewis Bowen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02621},
year = {2016}
}
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