Noncontinuous Maps and Devaney’s Chaos

Vu Dong Tô has proven in [1] that for any mapping $f: X \to X$, where $X$ is a metric space that is not precompact, the third condition in the Devaney’s definition of chaos follows from the first two even if $f$ is not assumed to be continuous. This paper completes this result by analysing the precompact case. We show that if $X$ is either finite or perfect one can always find a map $f: X \to X$ that satisfies the first two conditions of Devaney’s chaos but not the third. Additionally, if $X$ is neither finite nor perfect there is no $f: X \to X$ that would satisfy the first two conditions of Devaney’s chaos at the same time.