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For transitive shifts of finite type, and more generally for shifts with specification, it is well-known that every equilibrium state for a Hölder continuous potential has positive entropy as long as the shift has positive topological entropy. We give a non-uniform specification condition under which this property continues to hold, and demonstrate that it does not necessarily hold for other non-uniform versions of specification that have been introduced elsewhere.
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The first author is partially supported by NSF grants DMS-1362838 and DMS-1554794.
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Climenhaga, V., Cyr, V. Positive entropy equilibrium states. Isr. J. Math. 232, 899–920 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-019-1891-5
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