Weak* hypercyclicity and supercyclicity of shifts on \(\ell^{\infty }\) (Q2501051)

The authors undertake an extensive study of w*-hypercyclic operators on \(\ell^\infty (\mathbb Z)\) and \(\ell^\infty (\mathbb Z^+)\), the Banach sequence space of bounded sequences of complex scalars indexed by \(\mathbb Z\) or by the set of positive integers \(\mathbb Z^+\), respectively. The study of w*-hypercyclicity of operators on these spaces is motivated by the fact that \(\ell^\infty\) does not support weakly hypercyclic or even a weakly supercyclic operators (\(\ell^\infty\) is not weakly separable). In contrast, one of the main results of the paper, given in Section~4, provides a method that generates a whole lot of w*-hypercyclic and w*-supercyclic operators on \(\ell^\infty (\mathbb Z^+)\). Here the authors also provide an example of a w*-hypercyclic operator on \(\ell^\infty (\mathbb Z)\) that fails to be w*-sequentially hypercyclic. This is in sharp contrast with the main result of Section~4 where it is shown that in the case of a unilateral shift on \(\ell^\infty (\mathbb Z^+)\), the notions of w*-hypercyclicity and w*-sequential hypercyclicity are equivalent. The structure of w*-hypercyclic vectors is investigated in Section~3 where it is shown that -- contrary to the norm-denseness of hypercyclic vectors of a hypercyclic operator -- in the case of w*-hypercyclic unilateral or bilateral shifts on \(\ell^\infty (\mathbb Z^+)\), the set of w*-hypercyclic vectors is norm-nowhere dense. The final Section~5 is motivated by a well-known theorem of \textit{S.\,I.\,Ansari} and \textit{P.\,S.\,Bourdon} [Acta Sci.\ Math.\ 63, No.\,1--2, 195--207 (1997; Zbl 0892.47004)] , stating that an isometry on a Banach space can never be norm-supercyclic, whereas the existence of an isometry that is weakly supercyclic was established in [\textit{R.\,Sanders}, Integral Equations Oper.\ Theory 53, No.\,4, 547--552 (2005; Zbl 1081.47007)]. Theorem~5.3 of the present paper shows that the w*-analogue of this result holds; here it is proved that the bilateral shift on \(\ell^\infty (\mathbb Z)\) is even w*-sequentially supercyclic.