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Nilpotent extensions of minimal homeomorphisms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2005
Abstract
In this paper we study topological cocycles for minimal homeomorphisms on a compact metric space. We introduce a notion of an essential range for topological cocycles with values in a locally compact group, and we show that this notion coincides with the well-known topological essential range if the group is abelian. We then define a regularity condition for cocycles and prove several results on the essential ranges and the orbit closures of the skew product of regular cocycles. Furthermore, we show that recurrent cocycles for a minimal rotation on a locally connected compact group are always regular, assuming that their ranges are in a nilpotent group, and then their essential ranges are almost connected.
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