Proximality in minimal transformation groups

Shapiro, Leonard

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1970-0266183-2

Proximality in minimal transformation groups

Author: Leonard Shapiro
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1970), 521-525
MSC: Primary 54.80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1970-0266183-2
MathSciNet review: 0266183
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Abstract: We present an action of the integers on a compact metric space such that in the resulting minimal topological transformation group the proximal relation is an equivalence relation but is not closed.

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