Weak* Hypercyclicity and Supercyclicity of Shifts on ℓ^∞

Abstract.

We study hypercyclicity and supercyclicity of weighted shifts on ℓ^∞, with respect to the weak * topology. We show that there exist bilateral shifts that are weak * hypercyclic but fail to be weak * sequentially hypercyclic. In the unilateral case, a shift T is weak * hypercyclic if and only if it is weak * sequentially hypercyclic, and this is equivalent to T being either norm, weak, or weak-sequentially hypercyclic on c₀ or ℓ^p (1 ≤ p  <  ∞). We also show that the set of weak * hypercyclic vectors of any unilateral or bilateral shift on ℓ^∞ is norm nowhere dense. Finally, we show that ℓ^∞ supports an isometry that is weak * sequentially supercyclic.