The notions of chaos and frequent hypercyclicity enjoy an intimate relationship in linear dynamics. Indeed, after a series of partial results, it was shown by Bayart and Ruzsa in 2015 that for backward weighted shifts on $\ell _p(\mathbb {Z})$, the notions of chaos and frequent hypercyclicity coincide. It is with some effort that one shows that these two notions are distinct. Bayart and Grivaux in 2007 constructed a non-chaotic frequently hypercyclic weighted shift on $c_0$. It was only in 2017 that Menet settled negatively whether every chaotic operator is frequently hypercylic. In this article, we show that for a large class of composition operators on $L^{p}$-spaces, the notions of chaos and frequent hypercyclicity coincide. Moreover, in this particular class, an invertible operator is frequently hypercyclic if and only if its inverse is frequently hypercyclic. This is in contrast to a very recent result of Menet where an invertible operator frequently hypercyclic on $\ell _1$ whose inverse is not frequently hypercyclic is constructed.

Switched server systems are mathematical models of manufacturing, traffic and queueing systems that have being studied since the early 1990s. In particular, it is known that typically the dynamics of such systems is asymptotically periodic: each orbit of the system converges to one of its finitely many limit cycles. In this article, we provide an explicit example of a switched server system with exotic behaviour: each orbit of the system converges to the same Cantor attractor. To accomplish this goal, we bring together recent advances in the understanding of the topological dynamics of piecewise contractions and interval exchange transformations (IETs) with flips. The ultimate result is a switched server system whose Poincaré map is semiconjugate to a minimal and uniquely ergodic IET with flips.

Let $-1<\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}<1$ and let $f:[0,1)\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a piecewise $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}$-affine contraction: that is, let there exist points $0=c_{0}<c_{1}<\cdots <c_{n-1}<c_{n}=1$ and real numbers $b_{1},\ldots ,b_{n}$ such that $f(x)=\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}x+b_{i}$ for every $x\in [c_{i-1},c_{i})$. We prove that, for Lebesgue almost every $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}\in \mathbb{R}$, the map $f_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}}=f+\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}\,(\text{mod}\,1)$ is asymptotically periodic. More precisely, $f_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}}$ has at most $n+1$ periodic orbits and the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}$-limit set of every $x\in [0,1)$ is a periodic orbit.

We study the long-term behavior of injective piecewise contractions of the interval. We prove that every injective piecewise contraction with $n-1$ discontinuities has at most $n$ periodic orbits and is topologically conjugate to a piecewise linear contraction.