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Locally equicontinuous dynamical systems

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  1. Mathematics Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  2. Mathematics Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Abstract

A new class of dynamical systems is defined, the class of "locally equicontinuous systems" (LE). We show that the property LE is inherited by factors as well as subsystems, and is closed under the operations of pointed products and inverse limits. In other words, the locally equicontinuous functions in l∞(ℤ) form a uniformly closed translation invariant subalgebra. We show that WAP ⊂ LE ⊂ AE, where WAP is the class of weakly almost periodic systems and AE the class of almost equicontinuous systems. Both of these inclusions are proper. The main result of the paper is to produce a family of examples of LE dynamical systems which are not WAP.

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Colloquium Mathematicum
2000/84/85/2
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Pages:
345-361
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-08-13
Accepted
1999-10-19
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences