Spectral characterization of weak topological transitivity (Q692328)

A semigroup \(\mathcal{S}\) of bounded linear operators on a real Banach space \(X\) is called (weakly) topologically transitive on \(X\) if, for all nonempty (weakly) open subsets \(U\) and \(V\) of \(X\), there is \(T \in \mathcal{S}\) such that \(T(U) \cap V \neq \emptyset\). It is known that topological transitivity is equivalent to hypercyclicity. However, weak topological transitivity need not imply weak hypercyclicity. The counterexamples by Chan and Sanders are given by operators which are weakly hypercyclic but have inverses that are not. A surprisingly simple counterexample is given here by the authors. In the main results of the paper, given a bounded linear operator \(S\) on \(X\), weak topological transitivity of the families of operators \(\{S^n \mid n \in \mathbb{N} \}\), \(\{\lambda S^n \mid \lambda > 0, \;n \in \mathbb{N} \}\) and \(\{\lambda S^n \mid \lambda \in \mathbb{R}, \;n \in \mathbb{N} \}\) is characterized in terms of the point spectrum of the transposed operator \(S^{*}\) of \(S\).