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Almost proximal extensions of minimal flows

Part of: Topological dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2023

YANG CAO  and
SONG SHAO
YANG CAO
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China (e-mail: [email protected])
SONG SHAO*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China (e-mail: [email protected])
*
e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In this paper, we study almost proximal extensions of minimal flows. Let $\pi : (X,T)\rightarrow (Y,T)$ be an extension of minimal flows. Then $\pi $ is called an almost proximal extension if there is some $N\in {\mathbb N}$ such that the cardinality of any almost periodic subset in each fiber is not greater than N. When $N=1$, $\pi $ is proximal. We will give the structure of $\pi $ and give a dichotomy theorem: any almost proximal extension of minimal flows is either almost finite to one, or almost all fibers contain an uncountable strongly scrambled subset. Using the category method, Glasner and Weiss showed the existence of proximal but not almost one-to-one extensions [On the construction of minimal skew products. Israel J. Math. 34 (1979), 321–336]. In this paper, we will give explicit such examples, and also examples of almost proximal but not almost finite to one extensions.

Keywords

proximal extensionsminimal flowschaosweak mixinguniform rigidity

MSC classification

Primary: 37B05: Transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, etc.)
Secondary: 37B20: Notions of recurrence
Type
Original Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 43 , Issue 12 , December 2023 , pp. 4041 - 4073
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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