Entropy for extensions of Bernoulli shifts

Abstract

AbstractWe give a condition for automorphisms α and β on finite von Neumann algebras which induces the tensor product formula for entropies: H(α ⊗ β) = H(α) + H(β). As an application, the Bernoulli shift (1/n, 1/n, …, 1/n) has extensions to ergodic outer automorphisms {αk; k = 1,2, …} on the hyperfinite II1 factor R with the entropies H(αk) = (1/2)kn log n.