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Positive entropy equilibrium states

Dynamical Systems 2018-10-31 v2

Abstract

For transitive shifts of finite type, and more generally for shifts with specification, it is well-known that every equilibrium state for a Holder continuous potential has positive entropy as long as the shift has positive topological entropy. We give a non-uniform specification condition under which this property continues to hold, and demonstrate that it does not necessarily hold for other non-uniform versions of specification that have been introduced elsewhere.

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@article{arxiv.1708.02272,
  title  = {Positive entropy equilibrium states},
  author = {Vaughn Climenhaga and Van Cyr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02272},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages, corrected proof in Section 4.1

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