In 1958, Kolmogorov defined the entropy of a probability measure preserving
transformation. Entropy has since been central to the classification theory
of measurable dynamics. In the 70s and 80s researchers extended entropy
theory to measure preserving actions of amenable groups (Kieffer,
Ornstein-Weiss). I'll explain a generalization of Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy
to actions of free groups and more generally, sofic groups. Applications
include the classification of Bernoulli shifts over a free group, answering
a question of Ornstein and Weiss.
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