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The enveloping semigroup of projective flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Robert Ellis
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Abstract

The enveloping semigroup of a flow (X, T) has been used to study its dynamical properties. In this paper a detailed study is made of the class of enveloping semigroups which arise in the study of flows where T is a subgroup of GL(V) and X is the associated projective space, P(V).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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