Hypercyclic operators, Gauss measures and Polish dynamical systems (Q891075)

A Polish dynamical system is a pair \((Z,T)\) where \(Z\) is a complete metrizable and separable topological space and \(T:Z \rightarrow Z\) is a continuous map with dense range. This paper considers hypercyclic operators as a special case of Polish dynamical systems. In the first section, a construction of \textit{F. Bayart} and \textit{S. Grivaux} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 94, No. 1, 181--210 (2007; Zbl 1115.47006)] of a hypercyclic operator that preserves a Gaussian measure is analyzed, and a description of the maximal spectral type of the Koopman operator associated to the corresponding measure preserving dynamical system is derived. This result is utilized to show the existence of a mildly mixing but not strongly mixing operator on a separable Hilbert space. Upper and lower frequently transitive Polish dynamical systems are studied in Section 2. The following results are presented in Section 3: {\parindent=6mm \begin{itemize}\item[(1)] Every frequently hypercyclic system is an \(E\)-system. \item[(2)] Every syndetically hypercyclic system is topologically weakly mixing. \item[(3)] Every hypercyclic system \((X,T)\) such that there is a subset of \(X\) consisting of unitary eigenvectors whose span is dense in \(X\), is an \(M\)-system, hence syndetically hypercyclic. \item[(4)] There are hypercyclic \(M\)-systems that are not chaotic. \end{itemize}} We refer the reader to the paper for the definition of these concepts.