| Shannon-McMillian-Breiman theorem [`shan·ǝn mik`mil·ǝn `brī·mǝn ´thir·ǝm] MATHEMATICS Given an ergodic measure preserving transformation T on a probability space and a finite partition ζ of that space the limit as n→∞ of 1/n times the information function of the common refinement of ζ, T-1 ζ, ..., T-n+1 ζ converges almost everywhere and in the L1 metric to the entropy of T given ζ. |