English

Nilpotent extensions of minimal homeomorphisms

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study topological cocycles for minimal homeomorphisms on a compact metric space. We introduce a notion of an essential range for topological cocycles with values in a locally compact group, and we show that this notion coincides with the well known topological essential range if the group is abelian. We define then a regularity condition for cocycles and prove several results on the essential ranges and the orbit closures of the skew product of regular cocycles. Furthermore we show that recurrent cocycles for a minimal rotation on a locally connected compact group are always regular, supposed that their ranges are in a nilpotent group, and then their essential ranges are almost connected.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0502431,
  title  = {Nilpotent extensions of minimal homeomorphisms},
  author = {Gernot Greschonig and Ulrich Haboeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0502431},
  year   = {2007}
}
R2 v1 2026-07-22T17:15:53.433Z