Strong topological shift equivalence for dynamical systems

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce some new equivalence relations for topological dynamical systems named strong topological shift equivalence and topological shift equivalence, which are similar to the strong shift equivalence and shift equivalence for subshifts of finite type. We study the relations between the new equivalences and other equivalences such as topological conjugacy, mutually topological semi-conjugacy and canonical homeomorphism extensions being topologically conjugate. Some properties and examples are shown. In particular, mean topological dimension is an invariant for topological shift equivalence but not for mutually topologically semi-conjugate equivalence. In this topic, linear operators are also considered.