Metric mean dimension and the variational principle for actions of amenable groups

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Main Authors: Yang, Rui, Zhou, Xiaoyao
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author Yang, Rui
Zhou, Xiaoyao
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Zhou, Xiaoyao
contents Metric mean dimension is a dynamical counterpart of the box dimension in fractal geometry to characterize the topological complexity of infinite entropy systems. The classical variational principle states that topological entropy equals the supremum of measure-theoretic entropy over the set of invariant measures. Lindenstrauss and Tsukamoto proved that this variational principle fails for metric mean dimension in terms of rate-distortion dimensions. For the actions of amenable groups, we define a new measure-theoretic metric mean dimension for invariant measures and establish a classical-type variational principle for metric mean dimension. In particular, we extend the Lindenstrauss-Tsukamoto variational principles to the classical variational principle by defining modified rate-distortion dimensions. As applications, for systems with zero metric mean dimension, we introduce infinite entropy dimensions in both topological and measure-theoretic settings, and relate them via a variational principle. For systems with positive metric mean dimension, we introduce local metric mean dimension from a local perspective, and relate it to the metric mean dimension of the whole phase space via variational principles.
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Yang, Rui
Zhou, Xiaoyao
Dynamical Systems
Metric mean dimension is a dynamical counterpart of the box dimension in fractal geometry to characterize the topological complexity of infinite entropy systems. The classical variational principle states that topological entropy equals the supremum of measure-theoretic entropy over the set of invariant measures. Lindenstrauss and Tsukamoto proved that this variational principle fails for metric mean dimension in terms of rate-distortion dimensions. For the actions of amenable groups, we define a new measure-theoretic metric mean dimension for invariant measures and establish a classical-type variational principle for metric mean dimension. In particular, we extend the Lindenstrauss-Tsukamoto variational principles to the classical variational principle by defining modified rate-distortion dimensions. As applications, for systems with zero metric mean dimension, we introduce infinite entropy dimensions in both topological and measure-theoretic settings, and relate them via a variational principle. For systems with positive metric mean dimension, we introduce local metric mean dimension from a local perspective, and relate it to the metric mean dimension of the whole phase space via variational principles.
title Metric mean dimension and the variational principle for actions of amenable groups
topic Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15197