Topological sequence entropy of nonautonomous dynamical systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates the properties and relationships of topological sequence entropy in nonautonomous dynamical systems, including its connections to measure entropy, compositions, and measure spaces, revealing key differences from autonomous systems.

Contribution

It establishes new relations between topological sequence entropy and measure entropy, explores entropy behavior under compositions and measure space induced systems, and examines the link with multi-sensitivity.

Findings

Topological sequence entropy is at least as large as measure sequence entropy in finite-dimensional spaces.

Equi-continuity ensures the supremum topological sequence entropy matches that of the nth composition system.

Zero entropy in the original system corresponds to zero in the measure space system, and positive entropy corresponds to infinite in the measure space system.

Abstract

Let $f_{0,\infty}=\{f_n\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ be a sequence of continuous self-maps on a compact metric space $X$. Firstly, we obtain the relations between topological sequence entropy of a nonautonomous dynamical system $(X,f_{0,\infty})$ and that of its finite-to-one extension. We then prove that the topological sequence entropy of $(X,f_{0,\infty})$ is no less than its corresponding measure sequence entropy if $X$ has finite covering dimension. Secondly, we study the supremum topological sequence entropy of $(X,f_{0,\infty})$, and confirm that it equals to that of its $n$-th compositions system if $f_{0,\infty}$ is equi-continuous; and we prove the supremum topological sequence entropy of $(X,f_{i,\infty})$ is no larger than that of $(X,f_{j,\infty})$ if $i\leq j$, and they are equal if $f_{0,\infty}$ is equi-continuous and surjective. Thirdly, we investigate the topological sequence entropy relations between $(X,f_{0,\infty})$ and $(\mathcal{M}(X),\hat{f}_{0,\infty})$ induced on the space $\mathcal{M}(X)$ of all Borel probability measures, and obtain that given any sequence, the topological sequence entropy of $(X,f_{0,\infty})$ is zero if and only if that of $(\mathcal{M}(X),\hat{f}_{0,\infty})$ is zero; the topological sequence entropy of $(X,f_{0,\infty})$ is positive if and only if that of $(\mathcal{M}(X),\hat{f}_{0,\infty})$ is infinite. By applying this result, we obtain some big differences between entropies of nonautonomous dynamical systems and that of autonomous dynamical systems. Finally, we study whether multi-sensitivity of $(X,f_{0,\infty})$ imply positive or infinite topological sequence entropy.