Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book contains a collection of survey papers by leading researchers in ergodic theory, low-dimensional and topological dynamics and it comprises nine chapters on a range of important topics.
Table of Contents
1. Introductory talk at the opening of the conference Anatole M. Stepin; 2. Minimal idempotents and ergodic Ramsey theory Vitaly Bergelson; 3. Symbolic dynamics and topological models in dimensions 1 and 2 Andréde Carvalho and Toby Hall; 4. Markov odometers Anthony H. Dooley; 5. Geometric proofs of Mather's connecting and accelerating theorems Vadim Kaloshin; 6. Structural stability in one dimensional dynamics Oleg Kozlovski; 7. Periodic points of nonexpansive maps: a survey Bas Lemmens; 8. Arithmetic dynamics Nikita Sidorov; 9. The defect of factor maps and finite equivalence of dynamical systems Klaus Thomsen; 10. Actions of amenable groups Benjamin Weiss.