Dynamics of Weakly Mixing Nonautonomous Systems

Abstract

For a commutative nonautonomous dynamical system we show that topological transitivity of the nonautonomous system induced on probability measures (hyperspaces) is equivalent to the weak mixing of the induced systems. Several counter examples are given for the results which are true in autonomous but need not be true in nonautonomous systems. Wherever possible sufficient conditions are obtained for the results to hold true. For a commutative periodic nonautonomous system on intervals, it is proved that weak mixing implies Devaney chaos. Given a periodic nonautonomous system, it is shown that sensitivity is equivalent to some stronger forms of sensitivity on a closed unit interval.