Distal compact right topological groups

DOI10.1007/BF01874310MaRDI QIDQ1333067zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Milnes

Publication date 10 August 1995

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01874310

zbMATH Keywords

compact left topological groupcompact semigroupdynamicsenveloping semigroupflowretraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semigroups of transformations, relations, partitions, etc. (20M20) Analysis on general topological groups (22A10) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15)

Review text

A flow \((S,X)\) consists of a compact space \(X\) with a group \(S\) acting on it. The closure \(\overline {S}\) of \(S\) in the compact semigroup \(X^ X\) of all maps from \(X\) to \(X\) is a semigroup which is right topological (\(\rho_ y: x\mapsto xy\) is continuous for each \(y\)) but not usually left topological; it is called the enveloping semigroup. The structure of \(\overline {S}\) reflects the dynamics of the flow. The flow is called distal if \(\overline {S}\) is a group. Now take a compact left topological group \(G\), so that \(\lambda_ x: x\mapsto xy\) is continuous for each \(x\in G\). This paper starts with the interesting idea of considering the enveloping semigroup \(\overline {G}\) for the flow \((G,G)\). Several conditions equivalent to the flow being distal are given. If it is, then \(G\) is topologically a retract of \(\overline {G}\), but the retraction map is a homomorphism only if \(G= \overline {G}\). Now (interchanging left and right) if \(\overline {G}\) is a group, we have a flow \((\overline {G}, \overline {G})\); in this distal? This question is left open, but the paper concludes with a sequence of examples illustrating the theory.

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