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Entropy for Actions of Sofic Groups

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In Section 9.3 we arrived at a definition of entropy for p.m.p. actions of amenable groups by combining a concept which is internal to the space (the Shannon entropy of a partition) with one which is internal to the group (the process of averaging over Følner sets).

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Kerr, D., Li, H. (2016). Entropy for Actions of Sofic Groups. In: Ergodic Theory. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49847-8_10

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