ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Ellis groups of quasi-factors of minimal flows

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. 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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Pages:
319-326
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-08-03
Accepted
2000-01-04
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences