ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Ellis groups of quasi-factors of minimal flows
Authors 1
Affiliations
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4015, U.S.A.
Abstract
A quasi-factor of a minimal flow is a minimal subset of the induced flow on the space of closed subsets. We study a particular kind of quasi-factor (a 'joining' quasi-factor) using the Galois theory of minimal flows. We also investigate the relation between factors and quasi-factors.
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