Wild dynamics and asymptotically separated sets

Abstract

Let X X be a separable infinite dimensional (real or complex) Banach space. Hájek and Smith, in 2010, constructed a linear bounded operator T T on X X such that A T ≔ { x ∈ X : ‖ T n x ‖ → ∞ } A_T≔\{x\in X:~ \|T^nx\|\to \infty \} is not dense and has nonempty interior, whenever X X admits a symmetric basis. Augé, in 2012, extended the previous construction to each separable Banach space, introducing the notion of wild operators. This work is divided in two parts. In the first part we define and explore the notion of asymptotically separated sets on Banach spaces, giving several examples whenever the ambient space has either finite or infinite dimension. We show how these sets can be used to construct operators with non-intuitive dynamics. Specifically, operators T : X → X T:X\rightarrow X for which the set A T A_T and the set of recurrent points form a partition of the space. Secondly, we investigate geometric and spectral properties of operators with wild dynamic and we provide a wild operator whose spectrum is equal to the closed unit disk. We end this paper giving some comments about the norm closure of the set of wild operators.