Recurrence properties of hypercyclic operators (Q330864)

The authors generalize the notions of hypercyclic operators, \(\mathcal U\)-frequently hypercyclic operators, and frequently hypercyclic operators by introducing the new concept of \(\mathcal A\)-hypercyclicity. In particular, they obtain an \(\mathcal A\)-frequent hypercyclicity criterion that improves the well-known frequent hypercyclicity criterion. It is known that the frequent hypercyclicity criterion does not characterize frequently hypercyclic operators: \textit{F. Bayart} and \textit{S. Grivaux} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 94, No. 1, 181--210 (2007; Zbl 1115.47006)] exhibited a frequently hypercyclic weighted shift on \(c_0\) which is neither chaotic nor mixing, but if \(T\) is an operator satisfying the frequent hypercyclicity criterion, then \(T\) is mixing and chaotic. Here, the authors show that, in the case of weighted shifts on \(\ell_p\) or \(c_0\), the \(\mathcal A\)-hypercyclicity criterion does indeed characterize \(\mathcal A\)-hypercyclicity and thus, in particular, an operator \(T\) can satisfy the \(\mathcal A\)-hypercyclicity criterion even if it is neither chaotic nor mixing. The authors' characterization of \(\mathcal A\)-hypercyclic weighted shifts complements the characterization of hypercyclic weighted shifts [\textit{K. G. Grosse-Erdmann}, Stud. Math. 139, No. 1, 47--68 (2000; Zbl 0991.47013); \textit{H. N. Salas}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 347, No. 3, 993--1004 (1995; Zbl 0822.47030)] and the recent characterization of frequently hypercyclic weighted shifts on \(\ell_p\) and \(c_0\) [\textit{F. Bayart} and \textit{I. Z. Ruzsa}, Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 35, No. 3, 691--709 (2015; Zbl 1355.37035)].