On free actions, minimal flows, and a problem by ellis

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 350, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4149-4165

  Pestov, Vladimir G ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Effective actions; Ellis semigroup; Extremely amenable groups; Fixed point; Free actions on compacta; Greatest ambit; Universal minimal flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444455818     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-98-02329-0     Document Type: Article

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