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Expansivity and unique shadowing

Dynamical Systems 2020-02-27 v1

Abstract

Let f ⁣:XXf\colon X\to X be a continuous function on a compact metric space. We show that shadowing is equivalent to backwards shadowing and two-sided shadowing when the map ff is onto. Using this we go on to show that, for expansive surjective maps the properties shadowing, two-sided shadowing, s-limit shadowing and two-sided s-limit shadowing are equivalent. We show that ff is positively expansive and has shadowing if and only if it has unique shadowing (i.e.\ each pseudo-orbit is shadowed by a unique point), extending a result implicit in Walter's proof that positively expansive maps with shadowing are topologically stable. We use the aforementioned result on two-sided shadowing to find an equivalent characterisation of shadowing and expansivity and extend these results to the notion of nn-expansivity due to Morales.

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@article{arxiv.2002.11199,
  title  = {Expansivity and unique shadowing},
  author = {Chris Good and Sergio Macías and Jonathan Meddaugh and Joel Mitchell and Joe Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.11199},
  year   = {2020}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure

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