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Entropy

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We introduce the concepts of Shannon’s entropy for discrete sample spaces, the Kolmogorov entropy for measurable transformations, the topological entropy for continuous transformations on compact metric spaces, and the Boltzmann entropy of density functions. We also study some relationship between the Boltzmann entropy and the iteration of a Frobenius-Perron operator.

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Ding, J., Zhou, A. (2009). Entropy. In: Statistical Properties of Deterministic Systems. Tsinghua University Texts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85367-1_8

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