Topological Dimension and Dynamical Systems / by Michel Coornaert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coornaert, M. (Michel), Author.

Series:

Universitext, 0172-5939

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dynamics.

Ergodic theory.

Topology.

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.

Local Subjects:

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.

Topology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 233 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translated from the popular French edition, the goal of the book is to provide a self-contained introduction to mean topological dimension, an invariant of dynamical systems introduced in 1999 by Misha Gromov. The book examines how this invariant was successfully used by Elon Lindenstrauss and Benjamin Weiss to answer a long-standing open question about embeddings of minimal dynamical systems into shifts. A large number of revisions and additions have been made to the original text. Chapter 5 contains an entirely new section devoted to the Sorgenfrey line. Two chapters have also been added: Chapter 9 on amenable groups and Chapter 10 on mean topological dimension for continuous actions of countable amenable groups. These new chapters contain material that have never before appeared in textbook form. The chapter on amenable groups is based on Følner’s characterization of amenability and may be read independently from the rest of the book. Although the contents of this book lead directly to several active areas of current research in mathematics and mathematical physics, the prerequisites needed for reading it remain modest; essentially some familiarities with undergraduate point-set topology and, in order to access the final two chapters, some acquaintance with basic notions in group theory. Topological Dimension and Dynamical Systems is intended for graduate students, as well as researchers interested in topology and dynamical systems. Some of the topics treated in the book directly lead to research areas that remain to be explored.

Contents:

Topological Dimension

Zero-Dimensional Spaces

Topological Dimension of Polyhedra

Dimension and Maps

Some Classical Counterexamples

Mean Topological Dimension for Continuous Maps

Shifts and Subshifts over Z

Applications of Mean Dimension to Embedding Problems

Amenable Groups

Mean Topological Dimension for Actions of Amenable Groups.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-319-19794-0

OCLC:

911920025