Failure of additivity conjecture for sofic entropy

Let Γ\Gamma be a countable discrete non-amenable sofic group with sofic approximation Σ\Sigma. Let AA, BB, and CC be countable Z(Γ)Z(\Gamma)-modules in an exact sequence

0ABC0.0\longrightarrow A\longrightarrow B\longrightarrow C\longrightarrow 0.

Failure of additivity conjecture. There is such an exact sequence for which

hΣ(B^,Γ)hΣ(A^,Γ)+hΣ(C^,Γ).h_{\Sigma}(\widehat{B},\Gamma)\ne h_{\Sigma}(\widehat{A},\Gamma)+h_{\Sigma}(\widehat{C},\Gamma).

This predicts that sofic entropy need not satisfy an addition formula for algebraic actions of non-amenable sofic groups; the paper presents it as an analogue of the corresponding conjectured failure for metric mean dimension.

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Primary source

Ben Hayes, “Fuglede-Kadison Determinants and Sofic Entropy”, arXiv:1402.1135 (2016).

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