Equicontinuity, orbit closures and invariant compact open sets for group actions on zero-dimensional spaces

  • Colin D. Reid

    University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
Equicontinuity, orbit closures and invariant compact open sets for group actions on zero-dimensional spaces cover
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Abstract

Let be a locally compact zero-dimensional space, let be an equicontinuous set of homeomorphisms such that , and suppose that is compact for each , where . We show in this setting that a number of conditions are equivalent: (a) acts minimally on the closure of each orbit; (b) the orbit closure relation is closed; (c) for every compact open subset of , there is finite such that is -invariant. All of these are equivalent to a notion of recurrence, which is a variation on a concept of Auslander–Glasner–Weiss. It follows in particular that the action is distal if and only if it is equicontinuous.

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Colin D. Reid, Equicontinuity, orbit closures and invariant compact open sets for group actions on zero-dimensional spaces. Groups Geom. Dyn. 14 (2020), no. 2, pp. 413–425

DOI 10.4171/GGD/549