The specification property and infinite entropy for certain classes of linear operators (Q2627929)

Notions related to chaos in the setting of topological dynamical systems comprising continuous maps on compact metric spaces include specification (an orbit shadowing property), Devaney chaos, and positive topological entropy. Bartoll, Martínez-Giménez and Peris [\textit{S. Bartoll} et al., J. Difference Equ. Appl. 18, No. 4, 599--605 (2012; Zbl 1244.47008)] introduced a notion of specification for the backward shift operator on the space of Banach-space valued sequences and showed that in this setting their specification property is equivalent to a suitably adapted form of Devaney chaos. Here these ideas are pursued in the setting of translation operators on weighted Lebesgue function spaces, and the results show in particular that the same equivalence holds here. It is also shown that these equivalent notions of chaotic behaviour imply infinite topological entropy but the converse does not hold.