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The entropy of a certain infinitely convolved Bernoulli measure.

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Zagier,  Don
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Max Planck Society;

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Alexander, J., & Zagier, D. (1991). The entropy of a certain infinitely convolved Bernoulli measure. Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series, 44(1), 121-134.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-3927-1
Abstract
An entropy was introduced by A. Garsia to study certain infinitely convolved Bernoulli measures (ICBMs) μ\sbβ, and showed it was strictly less than 1 for β the reciprocal of a Pisot-Vijayarghavan number. However it is impossible to estimate values from Garsia's work. The first author and J. A. Yorke have shown this entropy is closely related to the ``information dimension'' of the attractors of fat baker transformations T\sbβ. When the entropy is strictly less than 1, the attractor is a type of strange attractor. In this paper, the entropy of μ\sbβ is estimated for the case β =φ\sp-1, where φ is the golden ratio. The estimate is fine enough to determine the entropy to several decimal places. The method of proof is totally unlike usual methods for determining dimensions of attractors; rather a relation with the Euclidean algorithm is exploited, and the proof has a number- theoretic flavour. It suggests some interesting features of the Euclidean algorithm remain to be explored.