GSS Fall 2017 - Andrew Zucker: An introduction to abstract topological dynamics
Channel: Grad Student
Date: 2017-09-06

Abstract topological dynamics concerns the ways that a topological group G can act continuously on a compact space X. We will define flows and ambits, then construct some universal objects (because ultrafilters are cool!) in the case that G is discrete. Time permitting, we will see how to generalize this construction to all topological groups.