We study the frequency of hypercyclicity of hypercyclic, non–weakly mixing linear operators. In particular, we show that on the space ${\ell }^1\left(\mathbb{N}\right)$, any sublinear frequency can be realized by a non–weakly mixing operator. A weaker but similar result is obtained for $c_0\left(\mathbb{N}\right)$ or ${\ell }^p\left(\mathbb{N}\right)$, $1\<p\<\infty$. Part of our results is related to some Sidon-type lacunarity properties for sequences of natural numbers.

In this paper we introduce a ⊗-operation over Markov transition matrices, in the context of subshift of finite type, reproducing symbolic properties of the iterates of the critical point on a one-parameter family of unimodal maps. To the *-product between kneading sequences we associate a ⊗-product between the corresponding Markov matrices.

We give analogs of the complexity $p\left(n\right)$ and of Sturmian words which are called respectively the $*$-complexity $p_{*}\left(n\right)$ and $*$-Sturmian words. We show that the class of $*$-Sturmian words coincides with the class of words satisfying $p_{*}\left(n\right)\le n+1$, and we determine the structure of $*$-Sturmian words. For a class of words satisfying $p_{*}\left(n\right)=n+1$, we give a general formula and an upper bound for $p\left(n\right)$. Using this general formula, we give explicit formulae for $p\left(n\right)$ for some words belonging to this class. In general, $p\left(n\right)$ can take large values, namely,...

In 1992 Agronsky and Ceder proved that any finite collection of non-degenerate Peano continua in the unit square is an ω-limit set for a continuous map. We improve this result by showing that it is valid, with natural restrictions, for the triangular maps (x,y) ↦ (f(x),g(x,y)) of the square. For example, we show that a non-trivial Peano continuum C ⊂ I² is an orbit-enclosing ω-limit set of a triangular map if and only if it has a projection property. If C is a finite union of Peano continua then,...