Existence of a measurable saturated compensation function between subshifts and its applications

Abstract

We show the existence of a bounded Borel measurable saturated compensation function for a factor map between subshifts. As an application, we find the Hausdorff dimension and measures of full Hausdorff dimension for a compact invariant set of an expanding nonconformal map on the torus given by an integer-valued diagonal matrix. These problems were studied in [19] for a compact invariant set whose symbolic representation is a shift of finite type under the condition of the existence of a saturated compensation function. We extend the results by presenting a formula for the Hausdorff dimension for a compact invariant set whose symbolic representation is a subshift without the condition and characterizing the invariant ergodic measures of full dimension as the ergodic equilibrium states of a constant multiple of a measurable compensation function. For a compact invariant set whose symbolic representation is a topologically mixing shift of finite type, we study uniqueness and the properties for the unique invariant ergodic measure of full dimension by using a measurable compensation function. Our positive results narrow the possibility of where an example having more than one measure of full dimension can be found.