Bowen Measure From Heteroclinic Points

We present a new construction of the entropy-maximizing, invariant probability measure on a Smale space (the Bowen measure). Our construction is based on points that are unstably equivalent to one given point, and stably equivalent to another: heteroclinic points. The spirit of the construction is similar to Bowen's construction from periodic points, though the techniques are very different. We also prove results about the growth rate of certain sets of heteroclinic points, and about the stable and unstable components of the Bowen measure. The approach we take is to prove results through direct computation for the case of a Shift of Finite type, and then use resolving factor maps to extend the results to more general Smale spaces

On graph induced symbolic systems

In this paper, we investigate shift spaces arising from a multidimensional graph G. In particular, we investigate nonemptiness and existence of periodic points for a multidimensional shift space. We derive sufficient conditions under which these questions can be answered affirmatively. We investigate the structure of the shift space using the generating matrices. We prove that any d-dimensional shift of finite type is finite if and only if it is conjugate to a shift generated through permutation matrices. We prove that if any triangular pattern of the form a b c can be extended to a 1 x 1 square then the two dimensional shift space possesses periodic points. We introduce the notion of an E-pair for a two dimensional shift space. Using the notion of an E-pair, we derive sufficient conditions for non-emptiness of the two dimensional shift space under discussion