Published March 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

The three versions of distributional chaos

  • 1. Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia (Spain)
  • 2. Mathematical Institute, Silesian University, 746 01 Opava (Czech Republic)

Description

The notion of distributional chaos was introduced by Schweizer and Smital [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 344 (1994) 737] for continuous maps of the interval. However, it turns out that, for continuous maps of a compact metric space three mutually nonequivalent versions of distributional chaos, DC1-DC3, can be considered. In this paper we consider the weakest one, DC3. We show that DC3 does not imply chaos in the sense of Li and Yorke. We also show that DC3 is not invariant with respect to topological conjugacy. In other words, there are lower and upper distribution functions Φxy and Φxy* generated by a continuous map f of a compact metric space (M, ρ) such that Φxy*(t)>Φxy(t) for all t in an interval. However, f on the same space M, but with a metric ρ' generating the same topology as ρ is no more DC3.Recall that, contrary to this, either DC1 or DC2 is topological conjugacy invariant and implies Li and Yorke chaos (cf. [Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 21 (2004) 1125])

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.chaos.2004.06.011;
PII
S0960-0779(04)00351-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Journal Volume
23
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 1581-1583
ISSN
0960-0779

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36048632
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CHAOS THEORY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; TOPOLOGY
Descriptors DEC
FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICS; SPACE

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