On Generalized Hyperbolicity, Stability, and Shadowing for Linear Operators

Abstract: This work studies the relations between shadowing, topological stability, Lipschitz structural stability, and pseudo-hyperbolicity for linear dynamical systems on Banach spaces. The main result establishes that pseudo-hyperbolicity implies both topological stability and strong Lipschitz structural stability, whereas strong Lipschitz structural stability implies the shadowing property. In addition, a spectral characterization of pseudo-hyperbolicity is obtained, yielding an equivalence between pseudo-hyperbolicity, topological stability, strong Lipschitz structural stability, and the shadowing property for invertible operators whose eigenspaces associated with unimodular eigenvalues admit closed complements. In particular, these four notions are equivalent on Hilbert spaces. Combined with a recent result of Dragičević and Pituk, these results yield, for a large class of Banach spaces, an invertible operator that has the shadowing property but is not generalized hyperbolic, thereby answering an open problem in linear dynamics.