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Here, we approach this topic from a theoretical perspective, estimating the amount of mutual information between order book layers, i.e., different buy\/sell layers, which are aggregated by buy\/sell orders. We show that (i) layers are not independent (in the sense that the mutual information is statistically larger than zero), (ii) the mutual information between layers is small (compared to the joint entropy), and (iii) the mutual information between layers increases when comparing the uppermost layers to the deepest layers analyzed (i.e., further away from the market price). 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