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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480084703321

Titolo

Topological dynamics and applications : a volume in honor of Robert Ellis : proceedings of a conference in honor of the retirement of Robert Ellis, April 5-6, 1995, University of Minnesota / / M.G. Nerurkar, D.P. Dokken, D.B. Ellis, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

0-8218-7807-7

0-8218-0608-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 215

Disciplina

514/.322

Soggetti

Topological dynamics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I. Topological Dynamics: Abstract Theory""; ""Robert Ellis and the algebra of dynamical systems""; ""Weak mixing and pure weak mixing minimal flows""; ""A natural family of factors for minimal flows""; ""Topological ergodic decomposition and homogeneous flows""; ""On the proximal and regionally proximal relation of an extension between minimal flows""; ""Almost equicontinuity and the enveloping semigroup""; ""Some universal constructions in abstract topological dynamics""; ""Weakly almost periodic flows and hidden eigenvalues""; ""Enveloping linear maps""

""An overview of the construction of suspension flows using continuous cocycles""""Suspensions, inheritance, and flows on homogeneous spaces""; ""On the lifting of transformation semigroups""; ""Part II. Applications and Other Dynamical Results""; ""Idempotent measures associated to a locally compact topological group""; ""Another proof of Moore's ergodicity theorem for SL(2, R)""; ""Multiple recurrence and doubly minimal systems""; ""Subset dynamics and van der Waerden's theorem""; ""Recurrence for semigroup actions and a non-commutative Schur theorem""



""A note on Livšic's periodic point theorem""""A zero-one law for dynamical properties""; ""Residuality and orbit equivalence""; ""Uncountably many Vershik-inequivalent group actions of equal entropy""; ""Part III. Applications to Differential Equations""; ""Positive exponents for a dense set of continuous SL(2, R) valued cocycles which arise as solutions to strongly accessible linear differential systems""; ""Topological dynamics and differential equations""; ""An ergodic and topological approach to almost periodic bidimensional linear systems""

""An application of topological dynamics to bifurcation theory""