Existence of Gibbs measures for countable Markov shifts
Authors:
Omri Sarig
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
Abstract:
We prove that a potential with summable variations and finite pressure on a topologically mixing countable Markov shift has a Gibbs measure iff the transition matrix satisfies the big images and preimages property. This strengthens a result of D. Mauldin and M. Urbanski (2001) who showed that this condition is sufficient.