Density-equicontinuity and Density-sensitivity

In this paper we introduce the notions of (Banach) density-equicontinuity and densitysensitivity. On the equicontinuity side, it is shown that a topological dynamical system is densityequicontinuous if and only if it is Banach density-equicontinuous. On the sensitivity side, we introduce the notion of density-sensitive tuple to characterize the multi-variant version of density-sensitivity. We further look into the relation of sequence entropy tuple and density-sensitive tuple both in measuretheoretical and topological setting, and it turns out that every sequence entropy tuple for some ergodic measure on an invertible dynamical system is density-sensitive for this measure; and every topological sequence entropy tuple in a dynamical system having an ergodic measure with full support is densitysensitive for this measure.     

Measure-theoretical sensitivity and equicontinuity

For an invariant measure μ in a topological dynamics, notions of μ-sensitivity, μ-complexity and μ-equicontinuity are introduced and investigated. It turns out that μ-sensitivity defined here is equivalent to pairwise sensitivity defined by Cadre and Jacob. For an ergodic μ, μ-equicontinuity, no μ-complexity pair and non-μ-sensitivity are equivalent, which implies minimality and equicontinuity when restricted to the support. Moreover, the notion of μ-sensitive set is introduced, it is shown that a transitive system with an ergodic measure of full support has zero topological entropy if there is no uncountable μ-sensitive set, and a non-minimal transitive system with dense minimal points has infinite sequence entropy for some sequence.     

Entropy for semigroup actions on general topological spaces

This paper introduces both notions of topological entropy and invariance entropy for semigroup actions on general topological spaces. We use the concept of admissible family of open coverings to extending and studying the notions of Adler–Konheim–McAndrew topological entropy, Bowen topological entropy, and invariance entropy to the general theory of topological dynamics.     

Combinatorial lemmas and applications to dynamics

The well-known combinatorial lemma of Karpovsky, Milman and Alon and a very recent one of Kerr and Li are extended. The obtained lemmas are applied to study the maximal pattern entropy introduced in the paper. It turns out that the maximal pattern entropy is equal to the supremum of sequence entropies over all sequences both in topological and measure-theoretical settings. Moreover, it is shown the maximal pattern entropy of any topological system is logk for some with k the maximal length of intrinsic sequence entropy tuples; and a zero-dimensional system has zero sequence entropy for any sequence if and only if the maximal pattern with respect to any open cover is of polynomial order.     

A note on the periodic orbits and topological entropy of graph maps

This paper deals with the relationship between the periodic orbits of continuous maps on graphs and the topological entropy of the map. We show that the topological entropy of a graph map can be approximated by the entropy of its periodic orbits.

     

On the topological entropy of the free semigroup action generated by proper maps

In this paper, we introduce the topological entropy of a free semigroup action generated by proper maps, which extends the notions of the topological entropy of the free semigroup actions defined by Bufetov in 1999 and topological entropy of the proper maps defined by Patrão in 2010. We then give some properties of these notions and discuss the relations between them. We also give a partial variational principle for locally compact separable metric spaces. Moreover, the relationship between topological entropy of the free semigroup generated by proper maps and topological entropy of a skew-product transformation is given. These results extend the results obtained by Patrão, Bufetov and Lin, Ma and Wang in 2018.     

A note on distributional chaos with respect to a sequence

The aim of this note is to use methods developed by Kuratowski and Mycielski to prove that some more common notions in topological dynamics imply distributional chaos with respect to a sequence. In particular, we show that the notion of distributional chaos with respect to a sequence is only slightly stronger than the definition of chaos due to Li and Yorke. Namely, positive topological entropy and weak mixing both imply distributional chaos with respect to a sequence, which is not the case for distributional chaos as introduced by Schweizer and Smítal.     

Auslander systems

The authors generalize the dynamical system constructed by
J. Auslander in 1959, resulting in perhaps the simplest family of examples of minimal but not strictly ergodic systems. A characterization of unique ergodicity and mean-L-stability is given. The new systems are also shown to have zero topological entropy and fail to be weakly rigid. Some results on the set of idempotents in the enveloping semigroup are also achieved.

     

线段映射的局部变差增长与局部拓扑熵

本文考虑闭区间上变差有界的连续映射f:I→I的局部变差增长γ(x,f)与局部拓扑熵h(x,f)．将证明γ(x,f)≥h(x,f)对所有x∈I成立,并且局部变差增长映射γf(x)=γ(x,f)与局部拓扑熵映射sf(x)=h(x,f)都是上半连续的,得到一个变分原理:局部变差增长γ(x,f)与局部拓扑熵h(x,f)的上确界分别等于全局变差增长γ(f)=limn→∞1/nln Var(fn)与拓扑熵h(f)．当映射f:I→I拓扑传递时,与Brin 和Katok对局部(测度)熵的讨论类似,我们证明,至多除一个不动点外,局部变差增长γ(x,f)与局部拓扑熵h(x,f)在开区间I°内恒为常值．     

Entropy and periodic points for transitive maps

The aim of this paper is to investigate the connection between transitivity, density of the set of periodic points and topological entropy for low dimensional continuous maps. The paper deals with this problem in the case of the -star and the circle among the one-dimensional spaces and in some higher dimensional spaces. Particular attention is paid to triangular maps and to extensions of transitive maps to higher dimensions without increasing topological entropy.

     

Dynamics of elementary maps of dendrites

The notion of elementary map of a dendrite into itself is introduced. Arithmetical relations between the periods of periodic points are given; the structure ofω-limit sets, sets of periodic and nonwandering points is described; the topological entropy of elementary maps is shown to be equal to 0. Examples are given illustrating the differences in the entropic properties of continuous maps of dendrites with a countable set of branch points and continuous maps of their retracts which are finite trees. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 183–195, February, 1998. This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under grant No. 96-01-01755.     

Topological sequence entropy for maps of the interval

A result by Franzová and Smítal shows that a continuous map of the interval into itself is chaotic if and only if its topological sequence entropy relative to a suitable increasing sequence of nonnegative integers is positive. In the present paper we prove that for any increasing sequence of nonnegative integers there exists a chaotic continuous map with zero topological sequence entropy relative to this sequence.

     

树映射的链等价集与拓扑熵

本文讨论了树映射f的链等价集的性质,得到了f具有零拓扑熵的几个等价条件,并证明了:如果 f的一个链等价集是个无限集,那么这个链等价集的任何孤立点都是f的非周期的终于周期点.     

Chain recurrence rates and topological entropy

We investigate the properties of chain recurrent, chain transitive, and chain mixing maps (generalizations of the well-known notions of non-wandering, topologically transitive, and topologically mixing maps). We describe the structure of chain transitive maps. These notions of recurrence are defined using ε-chains, and the minimal lengths of these ε-chains give a way to measure recurrence time (chain recurrence and chain mixing times). We give upper and lower bounds for these recurrence times and relate the chain mixing time to topological entropy.     

区间映射的链回归点的可链点集

主要讨论区间映射的链回归点的可链点集与链等价集的关系,证明了:若区间映射的拓扑熵是零,则它的链回归点的可链点集与链等价集相等.此外还得到了区间映射有正拓扑熵的几个等价条件.     

A condition for zero entropy

Criteria for a homeomorphism of a compact metric space to have zero topological entropy are obtained. These are applied to show that minimal distal and POD flows have zero entropy. These notions are also relativized, and it is shown that entropy is preserved by the extensions they define.     

树映射有异状点的一个充要条件

讨论了树上连续自映射的拓扑熵与非稳定流形之间的关系． 证明了：树上连续自映射有异状点的充要条件是其拓扑熵大于零． 因而推广了区间上连续自映射的一个结果．     

On Iterated Maps of the Interval with Holes

A kneading theory is generalized to maps of the interval with several discontinuity points and holes. Alternative methods to evaluate topological entropy are introduced and related. Also we study the parametrization of families of maps with holes and the monotonicity properties of the topological entropy.     

Stable sets and mean Li–Yorke chaos in positive entropy systems

It is shown that in a topological dynamical system with positive entropy, there is a measure-theoretically “rather big” set such that a multivariant version of mean Li–Yorke chaos happens on the closure of the stable or unstable set of any point from the set. It is also proved that the intersections of the sets of asymptotic tuples and mean Li–Yorke tuples with the set of topological entropy tuples are dense in the set of topological entropy tuples respectively.     

Entropy of flows, revisited

We introduce a concept of measure-theoretic entropy for flows and study its invariance under measure-theoretic equivalences. Invariance properties of the corresponding topological entropy is studied too. We also answer a question posed by Bowen-Walters in [3] concerning the equality between the topological entropy of the time-one map of an expansive flow and the time-one map of its symbolic suspension.Partially supported by FAPESP-Brasil, Grant #96/11671-6.Partially supported by CNPq-Brasil, Grant #300557/89-2.