Parametric topological entropy and differential equations with time-dependent impulses (Q2078891)

The author studies a parametric topological entropy of nonautonomous dynamical systems and its application to the theory of impulsive differential equations. One of the main results is a lower estimation of the parametric topological entropy of sequences of self-maps in terms of the Nielsen numbers, the so-called Ivanov-like inequality. This result is then applied to the following impulsive system on tori: \begin{align*} &x' = F(t,x), \\ &x(t_j+) = I_j(x(t_j^-)),\ j \in {\mathbb N}, \end{align*} where \(F : [t_0,\infty)\times {\mathbb R} \to {\mathbb R}\) is a Carathéodory function, the impulsive functions \(I_j : {\mathbb R}^n \to {\mathbb R}^n\) are equicontinuous, \(t_{j+1} = t_j + \omega_j\), with \(\omega_j > 0\), \(j \in {\mathbb N}\), provided \[ F(t,\ldots,x_k,\ldots) = F(t,\ldots,x_k +1,\ldots) \] and \[ I_j(\ldots,x_k,\ldots) = I_j(\ldots,x_k + 1,\ldots)\ (\mathrm{mod}\ 1), \ j \in {\mathbb N} \] for \(k = 1,\ldots,n\). Sufficient conditions for the positivity of the parametric topological entropy for this impulsive system on the torus \({\mathbb R}^n / {\mathbb Z}^n\) are given in terms of the associated Poincaré translation operators. In the reviewer's opinion this result has no analogy in the related literature.