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# On spatial entropy of multi-dimensional symbolic dynamical systems

• The commonly used topological entropy $h_{top}(\mathcal{U})$ of the multi-dimensional shift space $\mathcal{U}$ is the rectangular spatial entropy $h_{r}(\mathcal{U})$ which is the limit of growth rate of admissible local patterns on finite rectangular sublattices which expands to whole space $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$, $d\geq 2$. This work studies spatial entropy $h_{\Omega}(\mathcal{U})$ of shift space $\mathcal{U}$ on general expanding system $\Omega=\{\Omega(n)\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ where $\Omega(n)$ is increasing finite sublattices and expands to $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$. $\Omega$ is called genuinely $d$-dimensional if $\Omega(n)$ contains no lower-dimensional part whose size is comparable to that of its $d$-dimensional part. We show that $h_{r}(\mathcal{U})$ is the supremum of $h_{\Omega}(\mathcal{U})$ for all genuinely $d$-dimensional $\Omega$. Furthermore, when $\Omega$ is genuinely $d$-dimensional and satisfies certain conditions, then $h_{\Omega}(\mathcal{U})=h_{r}(\mathcal{U})$. On the contrary, when $\Omega(n)$ contains a lower-dimensional part which is comparable to its $d$-dimensional part, then $h_{r}(\mathcal{U}) < h_{\Omega}(\mathcal{U})$ for some $\mathcal{U}$. Therefore, $h_{r}(\mathcal{U})$ is appropriate to be the $d$-dimensional spatial entropy.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37B40, 37B10, 28D20; Secondary: 37B50.

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