Distal homomorphisms of nonmetric minimal flows

McMahon, D.; Wu, T. S.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0609668-6

Distal homomorphisms of nonmetric minimal flows
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1981), 283-287 Request permission

Abstract:

In a recent paper, R. Ellis proved that the Furstenberg structure theorem for distal minimal flows with metric phase space held for flows with nonmetric phase space. In this paper the authors remove the metric constraint from the relativized Ellis-Furstenberg structure theorem for distal homomorphisms and for the Veech structure theorem for point-distal minimal flows.

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