Sufficient Conditions under Which a Transitive System is Chaotic

Abstract

Let (X,T) be a topologically transitive dynamical system. We show that if there is a subsystem (Y,T) of (X,T) such that (X x Y,T x T) is transitive, then (X,T) is strongly chaotic in the sense of Li and Yorke. We then show that many of the known sufficient conditions in the literature, as well as a few new results, are corollaries of this statement. In fact, the kind of chaotic behavior we deduce in these results is a much stronger variant of Li-Yorke chaos which we call uniform chaos. For minimal systems we show, among other results, that uniform chaos is preserved by extensions and that a minimal system which is not uniformly chaotic is PI. © 2009 Cambridge University Press.

Department(s)

Mathematics and Statistics

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1469-4417; 0143-3857

Document Type

Article - Journal

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text

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English

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© 2026 Cambridge University Press, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Oct 2010

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