Supermixing and hypermixing operators (Q1998629)

In the paper under review, the author introduces and investigates supermixing and hypermixing notions, as stronger versions of the mixing property. Precisely, an operator \(T\) on a topological vector space \(X\) is said to supermixing if, for each nonempty open set \(U\) of \(X\), \(\overline{\cup_{i=0}^\infty\cap_{n=i}^\infty T^n(U)}=X\). The operator \(T\) is said to be hypermixing if, for each nonempty open set \(U\) of \(X\), \(X\setminus\{0\}\subset\cup_{i=0}^\infty\cap_{n=i}^\infty T^n(U)\). Clearly, every hypermixing operator is supermixing and all supermixing operators are mixing. Also, every hypermixing operator is obviously strongly topologically transitive (or strongly hypercyclic whenever the underlying space is second countable and Baire). The author first gives some results concerning supermixing and hypermixing operators on first countable topological vector spaces. In particular, he presents the hypermixing and supermixing criteria and also, some equivalent conditions to the hypermixing criterion. Then he deals with the supermixing and hypermixing operators on Banach spaces. It is proved that some suitable scalar multiples of non-invertible strongly hypercyclic operators are hypermixing. Finally, the author shows that the mixing and supermixing properties are equivalent for the (unilateral) weighted backward shift operators on \(\ell^p\) (\(1\leq p<\infty\)) and \(c_0\). He also establishes that there exist supermixing weighted backward shifts which fail to be hypermixing.