Topological stability and pseudo-orbit tracing property of group actions

Abstract

In this note we extend the concept of topological stability from homeomorphisms to group actions on compact metric spaces, and prove that if an action of a finitely generated group is expansive and has the pseudo-orbit tracing property then it is topologically stable. This represents a group action version of the Walter's stability theorem. Moreover we give a class of group actions with topological stability or pseudo-orbit tracing property. On the other hand, we also provide a characterization of subshifts of finite type over finitely generated groups in term of pseudo-orbit tracing property.