Mixing and equipartition for automorphism invariant processes on regular trees

Abstract

The paper is devoted to equipartition of measured information for finite state processes over regular trees whose laws are invariant under all parity preserving tree automorphisms. We show almost everywhere equipartition for ergodic processes along spheres and balls in every horosphere. Moreover, under a quantitive mixing condition we obtain a Shannon-McMillan-Breiman theorem along metric spheres of even radius.