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A characterization of topologically completely positive entropy for shifts of finite type
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2013
Abstract
A topological dynamical system was defined by Blanchard [Fully Positive Topological Entropy and Topological Mixing (Symbolic Dynamics and Applications (in honor of R. L. Adler), 135). American Mathematical Society Contemporary Mathematics, Providence, RI, 1992, pp. 95–105] to have topologically completely positive entropy (or TCPE) if its only zero entropy factor is the dynamical system consisting of a single fixed point. For ${ \mathbb{Z} }^{d} $ shifts of finite type, we give a simple condition equivalent to having TCPE. We use our characterization to derive a similar equivalent condition to TCPE for the subclass of
${ \mathbb{Z} }^{d} $ group shifts, which was proved by Lind and Schmidt in the abelian case [Homoclinic points of algebraic
${ \mathbb{Z} }^{d} $-actions. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 12(4) (1999), 953–980] and by Boyle and Schraudner in the general case [
${ \mathbb{Z} }^{d} $ group shifts and Bernoulli factors. Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys. 28(2) (2008), 367–387]. We also give an example of a
${ \mathbb{Z} }^{2} $ shift of finite type which has TCPE but is not even topologically transitive, and prove a result about block gluing
${ \mathbb{Z} }^{d} $ SFTs motivated by our characterization of TCPE.
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