2505.24647
Square Entropy and Uniform n-to-1 Bernoulli Transformations
Pouya Mehdipour, Somayeh Jangjooye Shaldehi
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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The paper’s classification theorem (Theorem 4.5) asserts that uniform n-to-1 (m,l)-Bernoulli transformations are isomorphic iff they share the same square entropy, but its proof jumps from equality of square entropies to isomorphism without establishing that all uniform n-to-1 full zip shifts with the same (m,l) (equivalently same (m,n) with l = mn) are mod-0 conjugate; that canonical conjugacy is not proved in the paper. The candidate solution correctly computes the forward/backward entropies, uses the fixed-n constraint to recover (log m, log l) from h_S, and crucially supplies an explicit canonical conjugacy S ≅ Z×[n], filling the missing step. The paper also contains a plus/minus mismatch in Lemma 2.6 but this does not affect h_S; it does, however, signal that notation needs correction.
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\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions \textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid \textbf{Justification:} Promising and interesting development of a square entropy invariant for finite-to-1 dynamics with a solid variational framework. However, the central classification theorem lacks a complete proof of conjugacy for uniform n-to-1 full zip shifts at fixed (m,n), and there are several notational inconsistencies that could confuse readers. Addressing these issues should elevate the work to a publishable standard.