Beyond topological hyperbolicity: the L-shadowing property

Abstract: In this paper we further explore the L-shadowing property defined in [17] for dynamical systems on compact spaces. We prove that structurally stable diffeomorphisms and some pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms of the two-dimensional sphere satisfy this property. Homeomorphisms satisfying the L-shadowing property have a spectral decomposition where the basic sets are either expansive or contain arbitrarily small topological semi-horseshoes (periodic sets where the restriction is semiconjugate to a shift). To this end, we characterize the L-shadowing property using local stable and unstable sets and the classical shadowing property. We exhibit homeomorphisms with the L-shadowing property and arbitrarily small topological semi-horseshoes without periodic points. At the end, we show that positive finite-expansivity jointly with the shadowing property imply that the space is finite.