Positive Sequence Topological Entropy Characterizes Chaotic Maps (Q3974518)

Let \(f\) be from the class \(C(I,I)\) of continuous maps \(I\to I\), where \(I\) is a real compact interval. It is well-known that any map \(f\) of positive topological entropy is chaotic in the sense of Li and Yorke, but the converse is not true. However, the paper shows that chaos in the sense of Li and Yorke can be characterized using sequence topological entropy which can be defined in the following way: Let \(f\in C(I,I)\), \(A=\{n(i)\}^ \infty_{i=1}\) be an increasing sequence of positive integers, \(m>0\) be an integer and \(\epsilon>0\). A set \(E\subset I\) is an \((A,m,f,\epsilon)\)-span if for any \(x\in I\) there is some \(y\in E\) such that \(| f^{n(j)}(x)-f^{n(j)}(y)|<\epsilon\) for \(1\leq j\leq m\). Let \(S(A,m,f,\epsilon)\) be an \((A,m,f,\epsilon)\)-span with minimal possible number of points. Then \[ h_ A(f)=\lim_{\epsilon\to 0}\limsup_{m\to\infty}{1 \over m} \log \hbox{card } S(A,m,f,\epsilon). \] It is shown that a map \(f\in C(I,I)\) is chaotic in the sense of Li and Yorke iff there is an increasing sequence \(A=\{n(i)\}^ \infty_{i=1}\) of positive integers such that \(h_ A(f)\), the sequence topological entropy of \(f\) with respect to \(A\) is positive.