Folding and Metric Entropies for Extended Shifts
In this paper we calculate the metric and folding entropies for a family of non-invertible symbolic dynamical systems $(Σ_{m_-,m_+}, σ_ϕ)$ which generalizes the standard bilateral Bernoulli shifts. The space $Σ_{m_-,m_+}$ consists of symbolic sequences over two distinct finite alphabets, with dynamics governed by a shift map $σ_ϕ$ incorporating a non-invertible function $ϕ$ that maps one of the alphabets to the other one. These systems are, for instance, particularly useful for encoding the many-to-one baker's transformation endomorphisms, and they can also be seen as a skew product with a unilateral Bernoulli shift on the base.
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