Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2016
Consider $\mathscr{F}$, a non-empty set of subsets of
$\mathbb{N}$. An operator
$T$ on
$X$ satisfies property
${\mathcal{P}}_{\mathscr{F}}$ if, for any non-empty open set
$U$ in
$X$, there exists
$x\in X$ such that
$\{n\geq 0:T^{n}x\in U\}\in \mathscr{F}$. Let
$\overline{{\mathcal{B}}{\mathcal{D}}}$ be the collection of sets in
$\mathbb{N}$ with positive upper Banach density. Our main result is a characterization of a sequence of operators satisfying property
${\mathcal{P}}_{\overline{{\mathcal{B}}{\mathcal{D}}}}$, for which we have used a deep result of Bergelson and McCutcheon in the vein of Szemerédi’s theorem. It turns out that operators having property
${\mathcal{P}}_{\overline{{\mathcal{B}}{\mathcal{D}}}}$ satisfy a kind of recurrence described in terms of essential idempotents of
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}\mathbb{N}$. We will also discuss the case of weighted backward shifts. Finally, we obtain a characterization of reiteratively hypercyclic operators.