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Local entropy theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2009

ELI GLASNER  and
XIANGDONG YE
ELI GLASNER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (email: [email protected])
XIANGDONG YE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People’s Republic of China (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

In this survey we offer an overview of the so-called local entropy theory, which has been in development since the early 1990s. While doing so, we emphasize the connections between the topological dynamics and the ergodic theory points of view.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 321 - 356
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