Counting preimages

MICHAŁ MISIUREWICZ, ANA RODRIGUES
2017 Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems  
For non-invertible maps, subshifts that are mainly of finite type and piecewise monotone interval maps, we investigate what happens if we follow backward trajectories, which are random in the sense that, at each step, every preimage can be chosen with equal probability. In particular, we ask what happens if we try to compute the entropy this way. It turns out that, instead of the topological entropy, we get the metric entropy of a special measure, which we call the fair measure. In general,
more » ... entropy (the fair entropy) is smaller than the topological entropy. In such a way, for the systems that we consider, we get a new natural measure and a new invariant of topological conjugacy.
doi:10.1017/etds.2016.103 fatcat:5zxu5eyaxnhppgbfi4kt34g374