Continuum-wise expansive measures (Q2236021)

The fundamental notion of expansiveness for homeomorphisms on metric spaces, introduced as ``unstable'' in [\textit{W. R. Utz}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 1, 769--774 (1950; Zbl 0040.09903)] has been generalized, weakened, and extended in multiple ways. Among these notions, \textit{H. Kato} [Can. J. Math. 45, No. 3, 576--598 (1993; Zbl 0797.54047)] introduced continuum-wise cw-expansiveness, \textit{B. Carvalho} and \textit{W. Cordeiro} [J. Differ. Equations 261, No. 6, 3734--3755 (2016; Zbl 1360.37026)] introduced \(N\)-expansiveness, \textit{J. Li} and \textit{R. Zhang} [J. Dyn. Differ. Equations 29, No. 3, 877--894 (2017; Zbl 1379.37021)] introduced countable expansiveness. In a different direction the expansive property was extended to Borel measures, roughly connected to the idea of the probability of a pair of orbits remaining close to within a prescribed radius being zero. Here the notion of continuum-wise expansivity is extended to measures, giving the notion of cw-expansive measure. It is shown that the set of expansive measures is strictly contained in the set of cw-expansive measures, and the cw-expansive measures for equicontinuous homeomorphisms are characterized in terms of nonlocally connected points. Other properties for interval and circle settings are studied and analogues of \(N\)-expansiveness are also introduced.