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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
1988.
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| Series: | North-Holland mathematics studies ;
153. Notas de matemática (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) ; no. 122. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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: | 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page ix). |
| ISBN: | 9780444704535 0444704531 9780080872643 0080872646 1281793221 9781281793225 |