Positive topological entropy and $Δ$-weakly mixing sets

Abstract

The notion of $Δ$-weakly mixing set is introduced, which shares similar properties of weakly mixing sets. It is shown that if a dynamical system has positive topological entropy, then the collection of $Δ$-weakly mixing sets is residual in the closure of the collection of entropy sets in the hyperspace. The existence of $Δ$-weakly mixing sets in a topological dynamical system admitting an ergodic invariant measure which is not measurable distal is obtained. Moreover, Our results generalize several well known results and also answer several open questions.

26 pages