Hypercyclic algebras for weighted shifts on trees

Abstract: We study the existence of algebras of hypercyclic vectors for weighted backward shifts on sequence spaces of directed trees with the coordinatewise product. When $V$ is a rooted directed tree, we show the set of hypercyclic vectors of any backward weighted shift operator on the space $c_0(V)$ or $\ell^1(V)$ is algebrable whenever it is not empty. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of these structures on $\ell^p(V), 1<p<+\infty$. Examples of hypercyclic operators not having a hypercyclic algebra are found. We also study the existence of mixing and non-mixing backward weighted shift operators on any rooted directed tree, with or without hypercyclic algebras. The case of unrooted trees is also studied.