Orders of Growth and Generalized Entropy

Abstract

We construct the complete set of orders of growth and we define on it the generalized entropy of a dynamical systems. With this object we provide a framework where we can study the separation of orbits of a map beyond the scope of exponential growth. We are going to show that this construction is particularly useful to study families of dynamical systems with vanishing entropy. Moreover, we are going to see that the space of orders of growth in which orbits are separated is wilder than expected. This is going to be achieved with different types of examples.