Erratum to “Dynamical Sources in Information Theory: Fundamental Intervals and Word Prefixes”

  • Authors:
  • Fréderic Chazal;Véronique Maume-Deschamps;Brigitte Vallée

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Bourgogne, B.P. 478770, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France;Université de Bourgogne, B.P. 478770, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France;GREYC, UMR CNRS 6072, Université de Caen, 14032 Caen, France

  • Venue:
  • Algorithmica
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In [V] the third author studied statistical properties of words generated by dynamical sources by using generalized Ruelle operators. This erratum aims to show that a supplementary condition should be added in Definition 2.1 of dynamical sources. This supplementary condition (called (d4) below) is closely related to the so-called Bounded Distortion Property and should be used at two different stages of the paper: first in the definition of the generalized operator Gs, second in the proof of Proposition 2 that deals with the Positivity Theorem of Krasnoselskii. We also prove that this condition is actually necessary and provide an example of a source which does not satisfy condition (d4) and for which Gs is not well-defined.