A selection of open problems

Topology and its Applications

Volumn 156, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2674-2681

  Bergelson, Vitaly ^a   Rothschild, Bruce ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amenable; Banach algebra; Hindman's finite sums theorem; Measure preserving actions; Pairwise sums; Ramsey game; Ramsey theory; Recurrence; Spectrum; Stone ech compactification; Topological group; van der Waerden number

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249248110     PISSN: 01668641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.topol.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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