Equicontinuity on semi-locally connected spaces (Q896824)

A homeomorphism \(f:X\to X\) of a compact metric space \((X,d)\) is distal if \(\inf_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}d(f^nx,f^ny)>0\) for any \(x\neq y\) and is equicontinuous if for any \(\epsilon>0\) there is some \(\delta>0\) for which \(d(x,y)\leq\delta\) implies that \(d(f^nx,f^ny)\leq\epsilon\) for all \(n\in\mathbb{Z}\). Replacing the point \(y\) by a compact set \(K\subset X\setminus\{x\}\) in the definition of distal turns out to give a property equivalent to equicontinuous. Here the property obtained by replacing \(y\) with other types of subsets of \(X\setminus\{x\}\) is studied. The main result is that if \(X\) is semi-locally connected then \(f\) is equicontinuous if and only if it satisfies the distal property with \(y\) replaced by any subcontinuum in \(X\setminus\{x\}\) (this property is called CW). It is also show that this equivalence is false without some condition on the topology of \(X\). A homeomorphism with CW is also shown to have the property that the set of its automorphic points contains those points where the space \(X\) is not semi-locally connected.