We deal with locally connected exceptional minimal sets of surface homeomorphisms. If the surface is different from the torus, such a minimal set is either finite or a finite disjoint union of simple closed curves. On the torus, such a set can admit also a structure similar to that of the Sierpiński curve.

A new class of dynamical systems is defined, the class of “locally equicontinuous systems” (LE). We show that the property LE is inherited by factors as well as subsystems, and is closed under the operations of pointed products and inverse limits. In other words, the locally equicontinuous functions in $l_{\infty }\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$ form a uniformly closed translation invariant subalgebra. We show that WAP ⊂ LE ⊂ AE, where WAP is the class of weakly almost periodic systems and AE the class of almost equicontinuous systems....

Considering different finite sets of maps generating a pseudogroup G of locally Lipschitz homeomorphisms between open subsets of a compact metric space X we arrive at a notion of a Hausdorff dimension $di{m}_{H}G$ of G. Since $di{m}_{H}G\le di{m}_{H}X$, the dimension loss $d{l}_{H}G=di{m}_{H}X-di{m}_{H}G$ can be considered as a “topological price” one has to pay to generate G. We collect some properties of $di{m}_H$ and $d{l}_H$ (for example, both of them are invariant under Lipschitz isomorphisms of pseudogroups) and we either estimate or calculate $di{m}_{H}G$ for pseudogroups arising...

We introduce the notions of Lyapunov quasi-stability and Zhukovskiĭ quasi-stability of a trajectory in an impulsive semidynamical system defined in a metric space, which are counterparts of corresponding stabilities in the theory of dynamical systems. We initiate the study of fundamental properties of those quasi-stable trajectories, in particular, the structures of their positive limit sets. In fact, we prove that if a trajectory is asymptotically Lyapunov quasi-stable, then its limit set consists...

During the last ten some years, many research works were devoted to the chaotic behavior of the weighted shift operator on the Köthe sequence space. In this note, a sufficient condition ensuring that the weighted shift operator $B_w^n:{\lambda }_p\left(A\right)\to {\lambda }_p\left(A\right)$ defined on the Köthe sequence space ${\lambda }_p\left(A\right)$ exhibits distributional $ϵ$-chaos for any $0<ϵ<\mathrm{diam}{\lambda }_p\left(A\right)$ and any $n\in \mathbb{N}$ is obtained. Under this assumption, the principal measure of $B_w^n$ is equal to 1. In particular, every Devaney chaotic shift operator exhibits distributional $ϵ$-chaos for any $0<ϵ<\mathrm{diam}{\lambda }_p\left(A\right)$.

We study the homomorphism induced on cohomology by the maximal equicontinuous factor map of a tiling space. We will see that in degree one this map is injective and has torsion free cokernel. We show by example, however, that, in degree one, the cohomology of the maximal equicontinuous factor may not be a direct summand of the tiling cohomology.

This paper is a continuation of [1], where a explicit description of the scrambled sets of weakly unimodal functions of type 2∞ was given. Its aim is to show that, for an appropriate non-trivial subset of the above family of functions, this description can be made in a much more effective and informative way.

We show that there are (1) nonhomogeneous metric continua that admit minimal noninvertible maps but have the fixed point property for homeomorphisms, and (2) nonhomogeneous metric continua that admit both minimal noninvertible maps and minimal homeomorphisms. The former continua are constructed as quotient spaces of the torus or as subsets of the torus, the latter are constructed as subsets of the torus.

We construct a continuous non-invertible minimal transformation of an arbitrary solenoid. Since solenoids, as all other compact monothetic groups, also admit minimal homeomorphisms, our result allows one to classify solenoids among continua admitting both invertible and non-invertible continuous minimal maps.

An effective construction of positive-entropy almost one-to-one topological extensions of the Chacón flow is given. These extensions have the property of almost minimal power joinings. For each possible value of entropy there are uncountably many pairwise non-conjugate such extensions.

We prove that for a certain class of ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ shifts of finite type with positive topological entropy there is always an invariant measure, with entropy arbitrarily close to the topological entropy, that has strong metric mixing properties. With the additional assumption that there are dense periodic orbits, one can ensure that this measure is Bernoulli.