Minimality and gluing orbit property (Q2423651)

The author studies the gluing orbit property for homeomorphisms on compact metric spaces. Precisely, a homeomorphism \(f\) on a compact metric space \(X\) has the gluing orbit property if for any \(\varepsilon >0\), there is \(M >0\) such that for any orbit sequence \(\mathcal{C}\), there is a gap \(\mathcal{G}\) such that \(\max \mathcal{G} \leq M\) and \((\mathcal{C}, \mathcal{G})\) can be \(\varepsilon\)-shadowed. The main result in this paper is that any dynamical system with gluing orbit property is either minimal or of positive topological entropy. Moreover, if a dynamical system is equicontinuous, then gluing orbit property, minimality and topological transitivity are pairwise equivalent.