Sufficient conditions under which a transitive system is chaotic

By Ethan Akin, Eli Glasner, Wen Huang, S. Shao, Xiangdong Ye. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 2009

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Abstract Let (X,T) be a topologically transitive dynamical system. We show that if there is a subsystem (Y,T) of (X,T) such that (X×Y,T×T) is transitive, then (X,T) is strongly chaotic in the sense of Li and Yorke. We then show that many of the known sufficient conditions in the literature, as well as a few new results, are corollaries of this statement. In fact, the kind of chaotic behavior we deduce in these results is a much stronger variant of Li–Yorke chaos which we call uniform chaos. For minimal systems we show, among other results, that uniform chaos is preserved by extensions and that a minimal system which is not uniformly chaotic is PI.

Subfields: Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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