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We introduce the notion of localized topological pressure for continuous maps on compact metric spaces. The localized pressure of a continuous potential $\varphi$ is computed by considering only those $(n,\epsilon)$-separated sets whose…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Tamara Kucherenko , Christian Wolf

Let $X$ be a compact metric space and $\Phi=\{\varphi_t\}_{t\in\mathbb{R}}$ be a continuous flow on $X$. We introduce two types of topological pressure for family of discontinuous potentials $a=\{a_t\}_{t>0}$. First, define the topological…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Ruolan Xiong

We introduce the notion of induced topological pressure for countable state Markov shifts with respect to a non-negative scaling function and an arbitrary subset of finite words. Firstly, the scaling function allows a direct access to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Johannes Jaerisch , Marc Kesseböhmer , Sanaz Lamei

We consider impulsive semiflows defined on compact metric spaces and deduce a variational principle. In particular, we generalize the classical notion of topological entropy to our setting of discontinuous semiflows.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Jose F. Alves , Maria Carvalho , Carlos Vasquez

In this article, I give a definition of topological entropy for random dynamical systems associated to an infinite countable discrete amenable group action. I obtain a variational principle between the topological entropy and measurable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Yuan Lian

In this paper we extend the notion of a continuous bundle random dynamical system to the setting where the action of $\R$ or $\N$ is replaced by the action of an infinite countable discrete amenable group. Given such a system, and a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-21 Anthony H. Dooley , Guohua Zhang

In a previous paper the authors developed an operator-algebraic approach to Lewis Bowen's sofic measure entropy that yields invariants for actions of countable sofic groups by homeomorphisms on a compact metrizable space and by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-07-22 David Kerr , Hanfeng Li

The topological pressure is defined for subadditive sequence of potentials in bundle random dynamical systems. A variational principle for the topological pressure is set up in a very weak condition. The result may have some applications in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Xianfeng Ma , Ercai Chen

In this paper, we introduce a concept of nonlinear local topological pressure defined via open covers and establish a corresponding variational principle. Furthermore, we provide multiple equivalent characterizations of nonlinear pressure…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Jiayi Zhu , Rui Zou

This paper is devoted to the study of induced topological pressure, including both classical and nonlinear cases. For the classical induced topological pressure, we investigate equilibrium states, subdifferential and freezing states, while…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Wenhui Ma , Yun Zhao , Hanjing Zhu

For random dynamical systems, by summarizing the fundamental properties of Kifer's topological pressure we introduce the concept of random pressure functions, and define Ruelle's metric entropy for invariant measures. Employing the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Rui Yang , Ercai Chen , Xiaoyao Zhou

We define and study notions of amenability and skew-amenability of continuous actions of topological groups on compact topological spaces. Our main motivation is the question under what conditions amenability of a topological group passes…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Vadim Alekseev , Hiroshi Ando , Friedrich Martin Schneider , Andreas Thom

In this paper, we introduce the notions of topological pressure and measure-theoretic entropy for a free semigroup action. Suppose that a free semigroup acts on a compact metric space by continuous self-maps. To this action, we assign a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Xiaogang Lin , Dongkui Ma , Yupan Wang

Some basic notions and results in Topological Dynamics are extended to continuous groupoid actions in topological spaces. We focus mainly on recurrence properties. Besides results that are analogous to the classical case of group actions,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Felipe Flores , Marius Mantoiu

Motivated by the notion of topological entropy for free semigroup actions introduced by Bi\'s, we define the Pesin--Pitskel topological pressure for non-autonomous iterated function systems via the Carath\'eodory--Pesin structure. We show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yujun Ju , Lingbing Yang

Based on the Carath\'eodory -Pesin structure theory[11], we introduce three notions of topological pressure of a proper map and provide some properties of these notions. For the proper map of a locally compact separable metric space, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Dongkui Ma , Nuanni Fan

In this paper, we investigate the relations between various types of topological pressures and different versions of measure-theoretical pressures. We extend Feng- Huang's variational principle for packing entropy to packing pressure and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Xingfu Zhong , Zhijing Chen

Let $\pi:X\to Y$ be a factor map, where $(X,T)$ and $(Y,S)$ are topological dynamical systems. Let ${\bf a}=(a_1,a_2)\in {\Bbb R}^2$ with $a_1>0$ and $a_2\geq 0$, and $f\in C(X)$. The ${\bf a}$-weighted topological pressure of $f$, denoted…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-02 De-Jun Feng , Wen Huang

We derive a conditional variational principle of the saturated set for systems with the non-uniform structure. Our result applies to a broad class of systems including beta-shifts, S-gap shifts and their factors.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Cao Zhao , Ercai Chen

A sofic approximation to a countable group is a sequence of partial actions on finite sets that asymptotically approximates the action of the group on itself by left-translations. A group is sofic if it admits a sofic approximation. Sofic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Dylan Airey , Lewis Bowen , Frank Lin