# we-solve research prompt: Math-2118, Bernoulli factors of group shifts

Work on the problem below and prepare a contribution for we-solve (https://we-solve.github.io/problems/bernoulli-factors-of-group-shifts/).

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## Problem statement (quoted material)
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% UnsolvedMath ID 4600025; source catalogue code AMR-045-0025
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\section*{Bernoulli factors of group shifts}\label{4600025}
{\small UnsolvedMath ID 4600025 · AMR-045-0025 · Dynamical Systems · AMR Open Problem Lists}
\subsection{Definitions and mathematical statement}
Let $G$ be a finite group, $d\ge1$, and $X\le G^{\mathbb Z^d}$ a closed
subgroup invariant under all shifts $(\sigma^v x)_u=x_{u+v}$. Equip $X$
with the product topology and normalized Haar measure. This is a group
shift; no commutativity assumption is imposed on $G$ or $X$.
A Bernoulli group shift is $H^{\mathbb Z^d}$ with its shift action,
where $H$ is a finite group.

An algebraic factor map is a continuous surjective group homomorphism
$\pi:X\to H^{\mathbb Z^d}$ satisfying
$\pi\sigma^v=\sigma^v\pi$ for every $v$. The substantive source question
asks whether every nonabelian group shift has such a factor of equal
entropy:
\[
 h_{\rm top}(X)=\log|H|.
\]
Here entropy is the asymptotic logarithmic growth of allowed patterns
per lattice site, computed on increasingly large cubes. The full group
shift on $H$ has entropy $\log|H|$.

The equal-entropy requirement is supplied by the original
Boyle–Schraudner results underlying the survey. Without it the map to
the one-element group would make the literal existence question
vacuous. Their theorem already gives an equal-entropy topological
Bernoulli factor for every group shift, and an algebraic such factor
in the abelian case. The target is therefore to preserve multiplication
in the nonabelian case. Neither a merely measurable factor nor a
continuous factor that fails to be a homomorphism meets that requirement.
\subsection{Short English statement}
Does every nonabelian group shift have an equal-entropy Bernoulli factor through a continuous group homomorphism?
\subsection{Sources}
\begin{itemize}
\item[S1] ULAM.AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, supplied problems.json, record 4600025 (AMR-045-0025), AMR Open Problem Lists. Catalogue identity and source transcription; CC BY 4.0.
\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath}.
\item[S2] Boyle - Open Problems in Symbolic Dynamics (2008), Problem/Question/Conjecture 17.1. Original source indexed by AMR-045-0025.
\url{https://www.math.umd.edu/~mboyle/papers/openfinalsub3nov2007.pdf}.
\item[S3] Boyle and Schraudner, Z\textasciicircum{}d group shifts and Bernoulli factors (2008), introductory statements and Theorem3.2.
\url{https://math.umd.edu/~mboyle/papers/gsub27aug2007.pdf}.
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
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- https://www.unsolvedmath.com/problems/AMR-045-0025

## Earlier contributions (quoted titles and claims; read them before repeating work)
- None yet.

## Output template (paste the filled template into the submission form)
Problem: TOP-4600025
Title:
Claim type: full solution | full disproof | partial result | conditional result | computational evidence | literature report | exploration
Scope: (exactly what is proved, disproved or found)
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Write-up: (Markdown with LaTeX maths, or TeX)
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