Information and dynamical systems: a concrete measurement on sporadic dynamics

We present a method for the study of dynamical systems based on the notion of quantity of information. Measuring the quantity of information of a string by using data compression algorithms, it is possible to give a notion of orbit complexity of dynamical systems. In compact ergodic dynamical systems, entropy is almost everywhere equal to orbit complexity. We have introduced a new compression algorithm called CASToRe which allows a direct estimation of the information content of the orbits in the 0-entropy case. The method is applied to a sporadic dynamical system (Manneville map).