Equicontinuity and indivisibility in transformation groups

Lam, Ping-fun

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1972-0309090-5

Equicontinuity and indivisibility in transformation groups

Author: Ping-fun Lam
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 174 (1972), 399-424
MSC: Primary 54H20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1972-0309090-5
MathSciNet review: 0309090
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Abstract: A notion called indivisibility for transformation groups is studied in some detail. The proofs of some theorems announced in [10] are given. Certain types of nonequicontinuous sets which do not disconnect their metric continuum phase spaces and which were not known to exist previously are exhibited.

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