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An endomorphisms $\varphi$ of an abelian group $A$ is said inertial if each subgroup $H$ of $A$ has finite index in $H+\varphi (H)$. We study the ring of inertial endomorphisms of an abelian group. Here we obtain a satisfactory description…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Ulderico Dardano , Silvana Rinauro

The logical basis for information theory is the newly developed logic of partitions that is dual to the usual Boolean logic of subsets. The key concept is a "distinction" of a partition, an ordered pair of elements in distinct blocks of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-29 David Ellerman

A notion of entropy is introduced for causal fermion systems. This entropy is a measure of the state of disorder of a causal fermion system at a given time compared to the vacuum. The definition is given both in the finite and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Felix Finster

Entropy or information is a fundamental quantity contained in a system in statistical mechanics and information theory. In this paper, a definition of classical information entropy of parton distribution functions is suggested. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-28 Rong Wang

Entropy and differential entropy are important quantities in information theory. A tractable extension to singular random variables-which are neither discrete nor continuous-has not been available so far. Here, we present such an extension…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Günther Koliander , Georg Pichler , Erwin Riegler , Franz Hlawatsch

We propose a new interpretation of measures of information and disorder by connecting these concepts to group theory in a new way. Entropy and group theory are connected here by their common relation to sets of permutations. A combinatorial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 David J. Galas

Building on work of Kontsevich, we introduce a definition of the entropy of a finite probability distribution in which the "probabilities" are integers modulo a prime p. The entropy, too, is an integer mod p. Entropy mod p is shown to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Tom Leinster

Entropies are fundamental measures of uncertainty with central importance in information theory and statistics and applications across all the quantitative sciences. Under a natural set of operational axioms, the most general form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Roberto Rubboli , Erkka Haapasalo , Marco Tomamichel

This paper investigates the relationship between categorical entropy and von Neumann entropy of quantum lattices. We begin by studying the von Neumann entropy, proving that the average von Neumann entropy per site converges to the logarithm…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-27 Haiqi Wu , Kai Xu

The notion of entropy appears in many fields and this paper is a survey about entropies in several branches of Mathematics. We are mainly concerned with the topological and the algebraic entropy in the context of continuous endomorphisms of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Dikran Dikranjan , Anna Giordano Bruno

In this expository paper we describe an unifying approach for many known entropies in Mathematics. First we recall the notion of semigroup entropy h_S in the category S of normed semigroups and contractive homomorphisms, recalling also its…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Dikran Dikranjan , Anna Giordano Bruno

Information is a precise concept that can be defined mathematically, but its relationship to what we call "knowledge" is not always made clear. Furthermore, the concepts "entropy" and "information", while deeply related, are distinct and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-03-03 Christoph Adami

We present a general definition of entropy in the setting of pre-ordered semigroups, extending the notion of topological entropy. From our definition, we obtain the basic properties exhibited by various entropy-like theories encountered in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Mauricio Achigar

Let $R$ be a ring, let $G$ be an amenable group and let $R\ast G$ be a crossed product. The goal of this paper is to construct, starting with a suitable additive function $L$ on the category of left modules over $R$, an additive function on…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Simone Virili

This article contains a review of categorifications of semisimple representations of various rings via abelian categories and exact endofunctors on them. A simple definition of an abelian categorification is presented and illustrated with…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Khovanov , Volodymyr Mazorchuk , Catharina Stroppel

For certain groups, parabolic subgroups appear as stabilizers of flags of sets or vector spaces. Quotients by these parabolic subgroups represent orbits of flags, and their cardinalities asymptotically reveal entropies (as rates of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ryan Leal , Jingtong Sun , Juan Pablo Vigneaux

There are three ways to conceptualize entropy: entropy as an extensive thermodynamic quantity of physical systems (Clausius, Boltzmann, Gibbs), entropy as a measure for information production of ergodic sources (Shannon), and entropy as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-05 Stefan Thurner , Bernat Corominas-Murtra , Rudolf Hanel

In general the endomorphisms of a non-abelian group do not form a ring under the operations of addition and composition of functions. Several papers have dealt with the ring of functions defined on a group which are endomorphisms when…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Gary Walls , Linhong Wang

For any discrete time dynamical system with a rational evolution, we define an entropy, which is a global index of complexity for the evolution map. We analyze its basic properties and its relations to the singularities and the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 M. P. Bellon , C. -M. Viallet

In this paper, we consider the Frobenius pushforward endofunctor $F_\ast$ of the bounded derived category of finitely generated modules over an $F$-finite noetherian local ring. We completely determine the categorical entropy of $F_\ast$ in…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Hiroki Matsui , Ryo Takahashi