Dissipative actions and almost-periodic representations of Abelian semigroups (Q915191)

Consider a commutative topological semigroup S with zero acting on a compact metric space X. The author assumes that the action is dissipative, i.e., that each s in S corresponds to a contractive mapping A(s) of X. It is noted that the attractor \(\Omega =\cap \{A(s)X:\) \(s\in S\}\) is compact, and it is connected if X is. It is shown that the action \(A| \Omega\) is isometric and that \(\Omega\) is the largest invariant set with this property. The connection between X and \(\Omega\) is studied using the stochastic almost periodic representation T of S on C(X) induced by A. If the action A is ergodic, there exists a homeomorphism of the Sushkevich kernel K of T onto \(\Omega\) that intertwines the regular action on K of a dense subsemigroup of K with \(A| \Omega\). corollaries give information about the structure of \(\Omega\) under certain circumstances.