On the speed of convergence of the pressure function at zero temperature

Abstract

We prove here that the pressure function cannot converge to the limit entropy at zero temperature faster than some exponential rate. Furthermore, we characterize this limit rate via an expression involving the Peierls barriers between the irreducible components of the Aubry set. This extends and completes results from [8] and [7]. In the first one, an exact exponential speed of convergence was proved, under the assumption that the Aubry set is a subshift of finite type. In the later one, a rate was given but without interpretation in term of Thermodynamical quantities of the system.