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From: propp@cartan.berkeley.edu (James Propp)
Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: entropy for tree-processes
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In an earlier posting, I asked (on behalf of a colleague):

> Has anyone done work on a notion of entropy suitable for processes
> that are indexed not by the integers or the reals but by the nodes
> of an infinite tree (possibly itself a random object)?

I now learn that this is not the question my colleague had in mind.
He's studying tree-VALUED processes (like the history of a branching
process).  Has anyone seen a notion of entropy for these?

Jim Propp (propp@math.berkley.edu)