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Weakly almost periodic flows
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by R. Ellis and M. Nerurkar
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 313 (1989), 103-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1989-0930084-3
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Abstract:

The notion of the enveloping semigroup of a flow is applied to some situations in ergodic theory. In particular, weakly almost periodic functions on groups are studied and Moore’s ergodic theorem is proved.
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Bibliographic Information
  • © Copyright 1989 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 313 (1989), 103-119
  • MSC: Primary 28D15; Secondary 28D20, 54H20, 58F11, 58F27
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1989-0930084-3
  • MathSciNet review: 930084