A survey of some aspects of dynamical topology: dynamical compactness and Slovak spaces (Q2180369)

This survey is concerned with a field called dynamical topology, which studies topological properties of spaces and maps characterized in topological terms. Three concepts in particular are discussed here. The first is topological properties of the set of all transitive maps of a compact interval. The second is dynamical compactness, which is defined in terms of a time-changed notion of omega-limit set in terms of a Furstenberg family of subsets of the natural numbers. The third is that of a Slovak space, meaning a non-empty compact metric space with the property that its self-homeomorphism group is generated by a single minimal homeomorphism. It is not obvious that such spaces exist, but earlier work of \textit{T. Downarowicz} et al. [J. Dyn. Differ. Equations 29, No. 1, 243--257 (2017; Zbl 1384.37015)] shows that there are Slovak metric continua, and that there are examples for which the topological entropy of the homeomorphism generating the auto-homeomorphism group has any value in \([0,\infty]\). Sadly the author of this survey passed away on May 16, 2018. Lubomír Snoha completed the editing of this paper, and the proceedings of the 2018 activities at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn [\textit{P. Moree} (ed.) et al., Dynamics: topology and numbers. Conference, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, July 2--6, 2018. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2020; Zbl 1448.37001)] were dedicated to Sergiĭ's memory.