Minimal flows and their extensions

This monograph presents developments in the abstract theory of topological dynamics, concentrating on the internal structure of minimal flows (actions of groups on compact Hausdorff spaces for which every orbit is dense) and their homomorphisms (continuous equivariant maps). Various classes of minim...

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Main Author: Auslander, Joseph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam North-Holland 1988, 1988
Series:North-Holland mathematics studies
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Collection: Elsevier eBook collection Mathematics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This monograph presents developments in the abstract theory of topological dynamics, concentrating on the internal structure of minimal flows (actions of groups on compact Hausdorff spaces for which every orbit is dense) and their homomorphisms (continuous equivariant maps). Various classes of minimal flows (equicontinuous, distal, point distal) are intensively studied, and a general structure theorem is obtained. Another theme is the ``universal'' approach - entire classes of minimal flows are studied, rather than flows in isolation. This leads to the consideration of disjointness of flows, which is a kind of independence condition. Among the topics unique to this book are a proof of the Ellis ``joint continuity theorem'', a characterization of the equicontinuous structure relation, and the aforementioned structure theorem for minimal flows
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Physical Description:xi, 265 pages
ISBN:9780080872643
9780444704535
0080872646
1281793221
0444704531