Folding and Metric Entropies for Extended Shifts

Abstract

In this paper we calculate the metric and folding entropies for a family of non-invertible symbolic dynamical systems $(\Sigma_{m_-,m_+}, \sigma_\phi)$ which generalizes the standard bilateral Bernoulli shifts. The space $\Sigma_{m_-,m_+}$ consists of symbolic sequences over two distinct finite alphabets, with dynamics governed by a shift map $\sigma_\phi$ incorporating a non-invertible function $\phi$ 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.