Entropy and actions of sofic groups

Benjamin Weiss

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.3375

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2015, Volume 20, Issue 10: 3375-3383. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.3375

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Entropy and actions of sofic groups

Benjamin Weiss^1,

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Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904

Received: January 31, 2015

Revised: January 31, 2015

Published: November 2015

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In recent years there has been a great deal of progress in the study of actions of countable groups. In particular, the concept of the entropy of an action has been extended to all sofic groups following the seminal work of Lewis Bowen. This survey is an invitation to these new developments. It includes a new proof of the analogue of Kolmogorov's theorem for sofic groups, namely that isomorphic Bernoulli shifts have the same base entropy.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37A15, 31A35; Secondary: 22F10.

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