We introduce and study the concept of Li–Yorke sensitivity for semigroup actions (dynamical systems of the form (X, G), where X is a metric space and G is a semigroup of continuous mappings of this space onto itself). A system (X, G) is called Li–Yorke sensitive if there exists positive ε such that, for any point x ∈ X and any open neighborhood U of this point, one can find a point y ∈ U for which the following conditions are satisfied: (i) d(g(x), g(y)) > ε for infinitely many g ∈ G, (ii) for any δ > 0; there exists h ∈ G satisfying the condition d(h(x), h(y)) < δ. In particular, it is shown that a nontrivial topologically weakly mixing system (X, G) with a compact set X and an Abelian semigroup G is Li–Yorke sensitive.
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Translated from Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 65, No. 5, pp. 681–688, May, 2013.
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Rybak, O.V. Li–Yorke sensitivity for semigroup actions. Ukr Math J 65, 752–759 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-013-0811-9
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