The fields of thermodynamic formalism and ergodic theory provide a rigorous mathematical framework for understanding complex dynamical systems by recasting ideas from statistical mechanics in a ...

We draw the connection between the model theoretic notions of internality and the binding group on one hand, and the Tannakian formalism on the other. More precisely, we deduce the fundamental results ...

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