Pure point diffraction and entropy beyond the Euclidean space

Abstract

For Euclidean pure point diffractive Delone sets of finite local complexity and with uniform patch frequencies it is well known that the patch counting entropy computed along the closed centred balls is zero. We consider such sets in the setting of $\sigma$-compact locally compact Abelian groups and show that the topological entropy of the associated Delone dynamical system is zero. For this we provide a suitable version of the variational principle. We furthermore construct counterexamples, which show that the patch counting entropy of such sets can be non-zero in this context. Other counterexamples will show that the patch counting entropy of such a set cannot be computed along a limit and even be infinite in this setting.