Chaotic linear dynamics deals primarily with various topological ergodic properties of semigroups of continuous linear operators acting on a topological vector space. We treat the questions of the following type. Characterize which of the spaces from a given class support a semigroup of prescribed shape satisfying a given topological ergodic property. In particular, we characterize LBS-spaces (...

During the last years the dynamics of linear operators on infinite dimensional spaces has been extensively studied, see the survey articles [3], [6], [7], [8], [9], [11]. Let us recall the notion of hypercyclicity. Let X be a separable Banach space and T : X → X be a bounded linear operator. The operator T is said to be hypercyclic provided there exists a vector x ∈ X such that its orbit under ...

We show that each power bounded operator with spectral radius equal to one on a reflexive Banach space has a nonzero vector which is not supercyclic. Equivalently, the operator has a nontrivial closed invariant homogeneous subset. Moreover, the operator has a nontrivial closed invariant cone if 1 belongs to its spectrum. This generalizes the corresponding results for Hilbert space operators. Fo...

As well-known, the concept "hypercyclic" in operator theory is the same as the concept "transitive" in dynamical system. Now the class of hypercyclic operators is well studied. Following the idea of research in hypercyclic operators, we consider classes of operators with some kinds of chaotic properties in this article. First of all, the closures of the sets of all Li-Yorke chaotic operators or...

We prove that for any n ≥ 1 there exist n × n matrices A and B such that for any vector x ∈ R with a nonzero first component, the orbit of x under the action of the semigroup generated by A and B is dense in R. As a corollary, we prove that for a large set of diagonal matrices A and B and any vector V with nonzero entries, the orbit of any vector under the semigroup generated by the affine maps...

We prove that l contains a dense set of vectors which are hypercyclic simultaneously for all multiples of the backward shift operator by constants of absolute value greater than 1.

Even linear operators on infinite-dimensional spaces can display interesting dynamical properties and yield important links among functional analysis, differential and global geometry and dynamical systems, with a wide range of applications. In particular, hypercyclicity is an essentially infinite-dimensional property, when iterations of the operator generate a dense subspace. A Fréchet space a...