Dynamical systems : proceedings of the special year held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1986-87

Discerning fat Baker’s transformations....Pages 1-6
Weakly mixing actions of F ∞ have infinite subgroup actions which are Bernoulli....Pages 7-22
Nasu’s simple automorphisms....Pages 23-32
Almost Markov and shift equivalent sofic systems....Pages 33-93
A note on the existence of periodic solutions of a differential system....Pages 94-99
The Barge-Martin decomposition theorem for pointwise nonwandering maps of the interval....Pages 100-104
Dynamics of tangent....Pages 105-111
Geodesic flow on the two-sphere part II: Ergodicity....Pages 112-153
Poincaré sequences in infinite measure spaces and complementing subsets of the integers....Pages 154-157
Non-self-similar attractors of hyperbolic iterated function systems....Pages 158-171
Enveloping semigroup in ergodic theory and a proof of Moore’s ergodicity theorem....Pages 172-179
Ratner’s rigidity theorem for geometrically finite Fuchsian groups....Pages 180-195
Counting circles....Pages 196-215
Periodic behavior of linear automata....Pages 216-219
Basic sets: Sets that determine the dimension of basin boundaries....Pages 220-250
Topological conjugacy for 1-block factor maps of subshifts and sofic covers....Pages 251-260
Approximately transitive (2) flows and transformations have simple spectrum....Pages 261-280
Remarks on recurrence and orbit equivalence of nonsingular endomorphisms....Pages 281-290
Ergodic theory of foliations and a theorem of Sacksteder....Pages 291-328
Distal flows of non abelian groups with finite codimension....Pages 329-341
Automorphisms of suspension flows over the circle....Pages 342-353
Sturmian minimal systems associated with the iterates of certain functions on an interval....Pages 354-360
Volume growth and topological entropy for random transformations....Pages 361-373
Decidability of shift equivalence....Pages 374-424
A group rotation factor of a non-rigid Rank-1 map....Pages 425-439
Periodic points, decidability and Markov subgroups....Pages 440-454
On measures induced on subsystems....Pages 455-464
On iterated maps of the interval....Pages 465-563
Topological conjugacy for sofic systems and extensions of automorphisms of finite subsystems of topological Markov shifts....Pages 564-607
Three bernoulli factors that generate an ergodic flow....Pages 608-616
Equilibrium states and weighted uniform distribution of closed orbits....Pages 617-625
Problems and perspectives in the theory of Markov shifts....Pages 626-637
Endomorphisms of the full shift which are bijective on an infinity of periodic subsets....Pages 638-644
Spectral multiplicity for non-abelian Morse sequences....Pages 645-652
Rectangular Tilings of ℝ n and free ℝ n -actions....Pages 653-688
Properties of the directional entropy function for cellular automata....Pages 689-705
Complexity of functions and entropy....Pages 706-717
Nonautonomous linearization....Pages 718-726