Weak Gibbs and Equilibrium Measures for Shift Spaces

For a large class of irreducible shift spaces $XsubsettA^{Z^d}$, with $tA$ a finite alphabet, and for absolutely summable potentials $Phi$, we prove that equilibrium measures for $Phi$ are weak Gibbs measures. In particular, for $d=1$, the result holds for irreducible sofic shifts.