A bridge between U -frequent hypercyclicity and frequent hypercyclicity

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Abstract: Given mathcalA the family of weights a=(an)n decreasing to 0 such that the series sumn=0inftyan diverges, we show that the supremum on mathcalA of lower weighted densities coincides with the unweighted upper density and that the infimum on mathcalA of upper weighted densities coincides with the unweighted lower density. We then investigate the notions of mathcalU-frequent hypercyclicity and frequent hypercyclicity associated to these weighted densities. We show that there exists an operator which is mathcalU-frequently hypercyclic for each weight in mathcalA but not frequently hypercyclic, although the set of frequently hypercyclic vectors always coincides with the intersection of sets of mathcalU-frequently hypercyclic vectors for each weight in mathcalA.


For any sequence of positive real numbers \((a_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}\), we can define the lower weighted density \(\underline{d}_{a}\) and the upper weighted density \(\overline{d}_{a}\) on subsets \(I\subseteq\mathbb{N}\) by \[ \underline{d}_{a}(I)=\liminf_{N\to\infty}\frac{\sum_{n\in I\cap[0;N]}a_n}{\sum_{n=0}^{N}a_n}\text{ and }\overline{d}_{a}(I)=\limsup_{N\to\infty}\frac{\sum_{n\in I\cap[0;N]}a_n}{\sum_{n=0}^{N}a_n}. \] Note that the classical lower \(\underline{d}\) and upper \(\overline{d}\) densities are recovered with the constant sequence equal to \(1\). Moreover, if \(\mathcal{A}\) denotes the set of positive sequences decreasing to zero and so that \(\sum_{n\in\mathbb{N}}a_n=\infty\), then for any \((a_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}\in\mathcal{A}\) we have the following ordering for any \(I\subseteq\mathbb{N}\): \[ \underline{d}(I)\leq \underline{d}_{a}(I)\leq \overline{d}_{a}(I)\leq \overline{d}(I). \] The author is motivated by the study of dynamical properties of continuous linear operators \(T\) on infinite-dimensional Fréchet spaces \(X\). In particular, for \(x\in X\) one may want to quantify how irregular is the behavior of the orbit \(\mathcal{O}(x,T):=\{T^nx;n\in \mathbb{N}\}\) by evaluating the size of the return sets \(N(x,U):=\{n\in\mathbb{N}: T^nx\in U\}\) for every non-empty open set \(U\) of \(X\). Such studies have become very active since the article of \textit{F. Bayart} and \textit{S. Grivaux} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 358, No. 11, 5083--5117 (2006; Zbl 1115.47005)] who introduced the concept of frequent hypercyclicity. Later, Shkarin in 2009 [\textit{S. Shkarin}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 137, No. 1, 123--134 (2009; Zbl 1161.47007)] defined the weaker notion of \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequent hypercyclicity. Let us recall that an operator is called frequently hypercyclic (respectively, \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequently hypercyclic) if there exists a vector \(x\in X\) such that for every non-empty open subset \(U\) of \(X\), the classical lower (respectively, upper) density of the return set \(N(x,U)\) is positive, i.e., \(\underline{d}(N(x,U))>0\) (resp., \(\overline{d}(N(x,U))>0\)). Such a vector \(x\) is called a frequently hypercyclic vector (resp., \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequently hypercyclic vector) and the set of all such vectors is denoted by \(FHC(T)\) (resp., \(UFHC(T)\)). \textit{R. Ernst} and \textit{A. Mouze} [Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 39, No. 4, 898--924 (2019; Zbl 1482.47010)] studied frequent hypercyclicity notions associated to weighted densities with weight \((a_n)_{n\in\mathcal{N}}\in\mathcal{A}\) defined above and we denote by \(FHC_a(T)\) (resp., \(UFHC_a(T)\)) the set of vectors such that every return set has positive lower (resp., upper) weighted density, i.e., \(\underline{d}_a(N(x,U))>0\) (resp., \(\overline{d}_a(N(x,U))>0\)) for every non-empty open subset \(U\subseteq X\). In fact, for weights in \(\mathcal{A}\), the inequality on the densities shows that all frequent hypercyclicity notions associated to weighted densities are intermediate notions between frequent and \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequent hypercyclicity. Moreover, it appeared that frequently hypercyclic operators and \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequent hypercyclicity have some important differences. The aim of the author is to use weighted densities to create a ``bridge between these two notions and to better understand their similarities and differences. The author begins with proving \[ UFHC(T)=\cup_{a\in\mathcal{A}}FHC_a(T)\text{ and }FHC(T)=\cap_{a\in\mathcal{A}}UFHC_a(T) \] which yields that every \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequently operator is automatically frequently hypercyclic for some \(a\in\mathcal{A}\). This result shows a link between the two notions of frequent and \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequent hypercyclicity. This last result makes us wonder if every \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequently hypercyclic operator for any \(a\in\mathcal{A}\) is automatically frequently hypercyclic. The author studies this question and concludes the article with a technically involved example of an operator on \(\ell^1\) that is \(\mathcal{U}\)-frequently hypercyclic for any \(a\in\mathcal{A}\) but not frequently hypercyclic. This operator is an operator of C-type, which was first introduced by \textit{Q. Menet} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 369, No. 7, 4977--4994 (2017; Zbl 1454.47014)] to prove that there exist chaotic operators that are not frequently hypercyclic.











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