On the topological entropy of continuous and almost continuous functions (Q719733): Difference between revisions

The paper under review can be divided into two parts. In the first part the authors introduce new notions of an entropy point and a strong entropy point for a function \(f:X\to X\), where \(X\) is a compact metric space. (Note that those definitions are different from other notions of entropy point which occur in the literature, because they are connected with the entropy of \(f\)-bundles. In particular, each strong entropy point is a fixed point of \(f\).) In the main theorem of this part the authors show that if \(f,g:X\to X\) are conjugate then \(f\) has an entropy point (a strong entropy point) iff \(g\) has the same property. In the second part the authors consider approximations of a function \(f:X\to X\) (here \(X\) is a compact manifold) by functions having strong entropy points. Two kinds of approximation are considered: the \(\Gamma\)-approximation and the uniform approximation. Recall that a function \(g:X\to X\) is \(\Gamma\)-approximated by functions belonging to the class \(\mathcal{F}\) if for each open set \(U\subset X\times X\) containing the graph of \(g\) there exists \(f\in\mathcal{F}\) with the graph contained in \(U\). (In particular, \(g:X\to X\) is \(\Gamma\)-approximated by continuous functions iff it is almost continuous in the sense of Stallings.) The main results of this part: every almost continuous function can be \(\Gamma\)-approximated by (almost) continuous functions having strong entropy points; and every continuous function can be uniformly approximated by continuous functions having strong entropy points.