Distributional Chaos and Dendrites

Abstract

Many definitions of chaos have appeared in the last decades and there is a concerned question if they are equivalent in some more specific spaces. Our focus will be on distributional chaos, first defined in 1994 and later subdivided into three major types (and even more subtypes). These versions of chaos are equivalent on a closed interval, but distinct in more complicated spaces. Since dendrites have much in common with the interval, we explore whether or not we can distinguish these kinds of chaos already on dendrites. At the end of the paper we will also briefly look at their correlation with other types of chaos.