A variation on the variational principle and applications to entropy pairs

The variational principle states that the topological entropy of a topological dynamical system is equal to the sup of the entropies of invariant measures. It is proved that for any finite open cover there is an invariant measure such that the topological entropy of this cover is less than or equal to the entropies of all finer partitions. One consequence of this result is that for any dynamical system with positive topological entropy there exists an invariant measure whose set of entropy pairs is equal to the set of topological entropy pairs.

New characterisations of pseudocompact spaces

In this paper, we give a new characterisation of pseudo-compact spaces, namely a space X is pseudocompact if and only if each σ-point finite open cover of X has a finite subfamily whose union is dense. As a corollary, we show that every pseudocompact σ-metacompact (or screenable) space is compact, which sharpens some known results.

On generalization of decomposability

Let X be a complex Banach space and let T be a bounded linear operator on X. Then T is decomposable if for every finite open cover of σ(T) there are invariant subspaces Yi(i= 1, 2, …, n) such that(An invariant subspace Y is spectral maximal [for T] if it contains every invariant subspace Z for which σ(T|Z) ⊂ σ(T|Y).).

Even Covers and Collectionwise Normal Spaces

The concept of an even cover is introduced early in elementary topology courses and is known to be valuable. Among other facts it is known that X is paracompact if and only if every open cover of X is even. In this paper we introduce the concept of an n-even cover and show its usefulness. Using n-even we define an embedding that on closed subsets is equivalent to collectionwise normal. We also give sufficient conditions for a point finite open cover to have a locally finite refinement and also sufficient conditions for this refinement to be even. Finally we show that the collection of all neighborhoods of the diagonal of X is a uniformity if and only if every even cover is normal. This last result is particularly interesting in light of the fact that every normal open cover is even.