English

A Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle theorem for irreducible sofic shifts

Dynamical Systems 2020-07-17 v2

Abstract

We show that for a potential with summable variations on an irreducible sofic shift in one dimension, the equilibrium measures are precisely the shift-invariant Gibbs measures. The main tool in the proof is a preservation of Gibbsianness result for almost invertible factor codes on irreducible shifts of finite type, which we then extend to finite-to-one codes by applying the results about equilibrium measures.

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@article{arxiv.2007.05862,
  title  = {A Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle theorem for irreducible sofic shifts},
  author = {Luísa Borsato and Sophie MacDonald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.05862},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

14 pages, 1 diagram. References added to earlier work by Baladi (1991) and Haydn-Ruelle (1992), who obtained very similar results to ours, of which we became aware after posting version 1

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