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In this note we show that the entropy of a skew product action of a countable amenable group satisfies the classical formula of Abramov and Rokhlin.
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Ward, T., Zhang, Q. The Abramov-Rokhlin entropy addition formula for amenable group actions. Monatsh Math 114, 317–329 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01299386
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