On local aspects of topological weak mixing in dimension one and beyond
Volume 202 / 2011
Studia Mathematica 202 (2011), 261-288
MSC: Primary 37B05; Secondary 37B40, 37E05, 37E25.
DOI: 10.4064/sm202-3-4
Abstract
We introduce the concept of weakly mixing sets of order $n$ and show that, in contrast to weak mixing of maps, a weakly mixing set of order $n$ does not have to be weakly mixing of order $n+1$. Strictly speaking, we construct a minimal invertible dynamical system which contains a non-trivial weakly mixing set of order 2, whereas it does not contain any non-trivial weakly mixing set of order 3.
In dimension one this difference is not that much visible, since we prove that every continuous map $f$ from a topological graph into itself has positive topological entropy if and only if it contains a non-trivial weakly mixing set of order $2$ if and only if it contains a non-trivial weakly mixing set of all orders.
