Distributional chaos for operators with full scrambled sets (Q1955722)

The authors provide an example of a continuous linear operator on a Banach space (a weighted backward shift on \(\ell^p\)) which is hypercyclic but not distributionally chaotic. In fact, the operator is even mixing. This complements earlier work of the authors (cf. [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 351, No. 2, 607--615 (2009; Zbl 1157.47008)]) where it was proved that a weighted backward shift on \(\ell^p\) is distributionally chaotic if it is chaotic in the sense of Devaney and that there are distributionally chaotic operators which are not hypercyclic. Moreover, the article under review provides examples of weighted shifts on \(\ell^p(\mathbb{Z})\) which show that complete distributional irregularity of an operator (even with completely distributionally irregular inverse) is independent of the property of being hypercyclic.