We obtain a sufficient condition for a substitution ${mathbb Z}$-action to have pure singular spectrum in terms of the top Lyapunov exponent of the spectral cocycle introduced in arXiv:1802.04783 by the authors. It is applied to a family of examples, including those associated with self-similar interval exchange transformations.
In this paper, entropies, including measure-theoretic entropy and topological entropy, are considered for random $mathbb{Z}^k$-actions which are generated by random compositions of the generators of $mathbb{Z}^k$-actions. Applying Pesins theory for commutative diffeomorphisms we obtain a measure-theoretic entropy formula of $C^{2}$ random $mathbb{Z}^k$-actions via the Lyapunov spectra of the generators. Some formulas and bounds of topological entropy for certain random $mathbb{Z}^k$(or $mathbb{Z}_+^k$ )-actions generated by more general maps, such as Lipschitz maps, continuous maps on finite graphs and $C^{1}$ expanding maps, are also obtained. Moreover, as an application, we give a formula of Friedlands entropy for certain $C^{2}$ $mathbb{Z}^k$-actions.
In this paper, directional sequence entropy and directional Kronecker algebra for $mathbb{Z}^q$-systems are introduced. The relation between sequence entropy and directional sequence entropy are established. Meanwhile, direcitonal discrete spectrum systems and directional null systems are defined. It is shown that a $mathbb{Z}^q$-system has directional discrete spectrum if and only if it is directional null. Moreover, it turns out that a $mathbb{Z}^q$-system has directional discrete spectrum along $q$ linearly independent directions if and only if it has discrete spectrum.
It is shown that the Ellis semigroup of a $mathbb Z$-action on a compact totally disconnected space is completely regular if and only if forward proximality coincides with forward asymptoticity and backward proximality coincides with backward asymptoticity. Furthermore, the Ellis semigroup of a $mathbb Z$- or $mathbb R$-action for which forward proximality and backward proximality are transitive relations is shown to have at most two left minimal ideals. Finally, the notion of near simplicity of the Ellis semigroup is introduced and related to the above.
We study directional mean dimension of $mathbb{Z}^k$-actions (where $k$ is a positive integer). On the one hand, we show that there is a $mathbb{Z}^2$-action whose directional mean dimension (considered as a $[0,+infty]$-valued function on the torus) is not continuous. On the other hand, we prove that if a $mathbb{Z}^k$-action is continuum-wise expansive, then the values of its $(k-1)$-dimensional directional mean dimension are bounded. This is a generalization (with a view towards Meyerovitch and Tsukamotos theorem on mean dimension and expansive multiparameter actions) of a classical result due to Ma~ne: Any compact metrizable space admitting an expansive homeomorphism (with respect to a compatible metric) is finite-dimensional.
In this paper, two types of Lyapunov exponents: random Lyapunov exponents and directional Lyapunov exponents, and the corresponding entropies: random entropy and directional entropy, are considered for smooth $mathbb{Z}^k$-actions. The close relation among these quantities are investigated and the formulas of them are given via the Lyapunov exponents of the generators.