Topological structures on saturated sets, optimal orbits and equilibrium states

Abstract

Pfister and Sullivan proved that if a topological dynamical system $(X,T)$ satisfies almost product property and uniform separation property, then for each nonempty compact %convex subset $K$ of invariant measures, the entropy of saturated set $G_{K}$ satisfies \begin{equation}\label{Bowen's topological entropy} h_{top}^{B}(T,G_{K})=\inf\{h(T,\mu):\mu\in K\}, \end{equation} where $h_{top}^{B}(T,G_{K})$ is Bowen's topological entropy of $T$ on $G_{K}$, and $h(T,\mu)$ is the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of $\mu$. In this paper, we investigate topological complexity of $G_{K}$ by replacing Bowen's topological entropy with upper capacity entropy and packing entropy and obtain the following formulas: \begin{equation*} h_{top}^{UC}(T,G_{K})=h_{top}(T,X)\ \mathrm{and}\ h_{top}^{P}(T,G_{K})=\sup\{h(T,\mu):\mu\in K\}, \end{equation*} where $h_{top}^{UC}(T,G_{K})$ is the upper capacity entropy of $T$ on $G_{K}$ and $h_{top}^{P}(T,G_{K})$ is the packing entropy of $T$ on $G_{K}.$ In the proof of these two formulas, uniform separation property is unnecessary.