Li-Yorke and distributionally chaotic operators (Q710911)

This is a systematic study of the topological dynamics of bounded linear operators on Banach spaces in the context of chaotic behavior. Already somewhat technically, an operator \(T\) is called Li-Yorke chaotic if there is a vector \(x\) such that the sequence \(\| T^nx\|\) has subsequences with limit \(0\) and with positive limit. If that positive limit is infinite, then \(x\) is called an irregular vector, and the existence of an irregular vector is equivalent to \(T\) being Li-Yorke chaotic. A further equivalent criterion is given, and it is mentioned that Li-Yorke chaotic operators are neither compact nor normal. For the other notion of the title, distributionally chaotic, two sufficient criteria are given; here, distributionally irregular vectors play an important role. Linear subspaces consisting of (distributionally) irregular vectors (apart from the zero vector) are called (distributionally) irregular manifolds and their denseness is investigated. As an application, it is described when the backward shift operator on \(l_p\) or \(c_0\) (weighted or unweighted) is Li-Yorke chaotic, and the existence of dense irregular manifolds is asserted in that case. By a final result, any infinite-dimensional separable Banach space has an operator that is hypercyclic (existence of a dense positive semi-orbit) and distributionally chaotic, with a dense distributionally irregular manifold.