Maximising Bernoulli measures and dimension gaps for countable branched systems

Abstract

Kifer, Peres, and Weiss proved that there exists $c_0>0,$ such that $\dim \mu\leq 1-c_0$ for any probability measure $\mu$ which makes the digits of the continued fraction expansion i.i.d. random variables. In this paper we prove that amongst this class of measures, there exists one whose dimension is maximal. Our results also apply in the more general setting of countable branched systems.