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Mean dimension explosion of induced homeomorphisms

Dynamical Systems 2025-10-15 v2 General Topology

Abstract

Given XX a compact metric space and T:XXT: X \to X a continuous map, the induced hyperspace map TKT_\mathcal{K} acts on the hyperspace K(X)\mathcal{K}(X) of closed and nonempty subsets of XX, and on the continuum hyperspace C(X)K(X)\mathcal{C}(X) \subset \mathcal{K}(X) of connected sets. This work studies the mean dimension explosion phenomenon: when the base system TT has zero topological entropy, but the mean dimension of the induced map TKT_\mathcal{K} is infinite. In particular, this phenomenon occurs for Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms. Furthermore, for a circle homeomorphism HH, the mean dimension explosion does not occur if and only if HH is conjugate to a rotation. For the metric mean dimension, a different result is obtained: we establish sufficient conditions for the induced hyperspace map to have zero or infinite metric mean dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2404.08146,
  title  = {Mean dimension explosion of induced homeomorphisms},
  author = {Gabriel Lacerda and Sergio Romaña},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.08146},
  year   = {2025}
}
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