Weighted topological pressure revisited

Abstract: Feng--Huang (2016) introduced weighted topological entropy and pressure for factor maps between dynamical systems and established its variational principle. Tsukamoto (2022) redefined those invariants quite differently for the simplest case and showed via the variational principle that the two definitions coincide. We generalize Tsukamoto's approach, redefine the weighted topological entropy and pressure for higher dimensions, and prove the variational principle. Our result allows for an elementary calculation of the Hausdorff dimension of affine-invariant sets such as self-affine sponges and certain sofic sets that reside in Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension.