We give a complete characterization of a hypercyclic abelian semigroup of matrices on ℂn. For finitely generated semigroups, this characterization is explicit and it is used to determine the minimal number of matrices in normal form over ℂ that form a hypercyclic abelian semigroup on ℂn. In particular, we show that no abelian semigroup generated by n matrices on ℂn can be hypercyclic.

We give a characterization of hypercyclic abelian group $\mathcal{G}$ of affine maps on ${{\mathbb{C}}^{n}}$. If $\mathcal{G}$ is finitely generated, this characterization is explicit. We prove in particular that no abelian group generated by $n$ affine maps on ${{\mathbb{C}}^{n}}$ has a dense orbit.

An operator $T$ on a Banach space $X$ is said to be weakly supercyclic (respectively $N$-supercyclic) if there exists a one-dimensional (respectively $N$-dimensional) subspace of $X$ whose orbit under $T$ is weakly dense (respectively norm dense) in $X$. We show that a weakly supercyclic hyponormal operator is necessarily a multiple of a unitary operator, and we give an example of a weakly supercyclic unitary operator. On the other hand, we show that hyponormal operators are never $N$-supercyclic. Finally, we characterize $N$-supercyclic weighted shifts.