Ergodic Theory on Compact Spaces [electronic resource] / by Manfred Denker, Christian Grillenberger, Karl Sigmund.

Measure-theoretic dynamical systems -- Measures on compact metric spaces -- Invariant measures for continuous tranformations -- Time averages -- Ergodicity -- Mixing and transitivity -- Shifts and subshifts -- Measures on the shift space -- Partitions and generators -- Information and entropy -- The computation of entropy -- Entropy for Bernoulli and Markov shifts -- Ergodic decompositions -- Topological entropy -- Topological generators -- Expansive homeomorphisms -- Subshifts of finite type -- The variational principle for topological entropy -- Measures with maximal entropy—Intrinsically ergodic systems -- Entropy—Expansive homeomorphisms -- The specification property -- Specification and expansiveness -- Basic sets for axiom A -- Automorphisms of the torus -- More on subshifts of finite type -- Preparations for generator theorems -- Combinatorial construction of minimal sets -- Finite generators for ergodic transformations (theorem of Krieger) -- Strictly ergodic embedding (Theorem of Jewett and Krieger) -- Finite generators for aperiodic transformations -- Embedding theorems for aperiodic transformations.