For a finite partition , put
The system is K-mixing when every measurable becomes uniformly asymptotically independent of this remote future:
Taking makes , so
Thus K-mixing implies mixing.
The tail sigma-algebra of a measurable partition is
By the reverse martingale convergence theorem,
in . The uniform independence in the definition of K-mixing is equivalent to the limit being the constant for every . This holds exactly when every -measurable set has measure zero or one. Hence the system is K-mixing if and only if every finite partition has trivial tail sigma-algebra.
Let . Complements preserve the binary partition. If , then is coarser than , so subadditivity gives zero entropy rate. Thus is an algebra. For , let . The entropy metric continuity bound
tends to zero because . Hence , proving that is a sigma-algebra: the Pinsker sigma-algebra.
If belongs modulo null sets to for a finite , remote-future approximations make the entropy rate of zero. Conversely, if , the conditional-entropy formula for entropy rate gives
Thus is measurable modulo null sets from its strict future. Iterating this fact makes it measurable from every remote future, so modulo null sets. Therefore
This is the Tail characterization of the Pinsker sigma-algebra.
The tail sigma-algebra of a finite partition is
By the reverse martingale convergence theorem, K-mixing is equivalent to triviality of for every finite partition .