Prime flows in topological dynamics

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 26-38 - 1973
Harry Furstenberg1,2, Harvey Keynes1,2, Leonard Shapiro1,2
1Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.

Tóm tắt

We present some results in topological dynamics and number theory. The number-theoretical results are estimates of the rates of convergence of sequences {fx26-1}, wherena is irrational,a is taken mod 1, and 0<β<1. One of these results is used to construct a homorphismT of a compact metric spaceX such that the minimal flow (X, T) had no nontrivial homomorphic images, i.e. is a prime flow. We define an infinite family of such flows, and describe other interesting properties of these flows.

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