Li-Yorke and Devaney chaotic uniform dynamical systems amongst weighted shifts
Fatemah Ayatollah Zadeh Shirazi, Elaheh Hakimi, Arezoo Hosseini, Reza Rezavand
TL;DR
The paper classifies Li--Yorke and Devaney chaos for weighted generalized shifts $\sigma_{\varphi,\mathfrak{w}}$ on $R^\Gamma$ with $R$ a finite field. It derives necessary and sufficient conditions for sensitivity, scrambled pairs, and Li--Yorke chaos in terms of a non--quasi--periodic orbit $\theta$ with nonvanishing weights along $\varphi$-orbits, and it connects dense periodic points to onto-ness and invertibility of weights. The Devaney chaotic regime is shown to occur exactly when $\varphi$ is injective without periodic points and all weights are invertible, linking topological transitivity, sensitivity, and dense periodic points to precise algebraic-dynamical criteria. Overall, the results establish tight equivalences between chaos notions in the uniform setting of weighted shifts and the combinatorial/dynamical structure of the base map $\varphi$ and weight vector $\mathfrak{w}$. These findings provide a clear, testable framework for classifying chaotic behavior in uniform dynamical systems built from weighted shifts on finite-field product spaces.
Abstract
In this paper, for finite discrete field $F$, nonempty set $Γ$, weight vector $\mathfrak{w}=({\mathfrak w}_α)_{α\inΓ}\in F^Γ$ and weighted generalized shift $σ_{\varphi,{\mathfrak w}}:F^Γ\to F^Γ$, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for uniform dynamical system $(F^Γ,σ_{\varphi,{\mathfrak w}})$ to be Li--Yorke chaotic. Next we find necessary and sufficient conditions for $(F^Γ,σ_{\varphi,{\mathfrak w}})$ to be Devaney chaotic.
