Extensions of Minimal Transformation Groups [Hardcover]

I Topological Transformation Groups.- 1.1 Basic Definitions.- 1.2 Recursion.- 1.3 Relations.- 1.4 The Ellis Semigroup.- 1.5 Pointwise Almost Periodic Transformation Groups.- 1.6 Distal and Equicontinuous Transformation Groups.- II Minimal Transformation Groups.- 2.7 The Enveloping Semigroup Of a Minimal Transformation Group.- 2.8 Almost Periodic and Locally almost periodic minimal sets.- 2.9 Distal Minimal Transformation Groups.- 2.10 Transitive Distal Transformation Groups and Nil-Flows.- 2.11 Topological Properties of Minimal Sets.- III Extensions of Minimal Transformation Groups.- 3.12 The basic Theory of Extensions.- 3.13 Equicontinuous and Stable Extensions.- 3.14 The Structure of Distal and Almost Distal Extensions.- 3.15 Groups Associated with Minimal Extensions.- 3.16 Group Extensions.- 3.17 Relationships Between Group Extensions and Equicontinuous Extensions; A Strengthened Structure Theorem for Distal Extensions.- 3.18 A Method for Constructing Minimal Sets.- 3.19 Disjointness.- IV Extensions and Equations.- 4.20 Shift Dynamical Systems.- 4.21 Extensions Associated with Certain Classes of Equations.- 4.22 Almost Automorphic Extensions and Synchronous Solutions of Differential Equations.- 4.23 Extensions with Zero-Dimensional Fibers and Almost Periodic Solutions.- 4.24 Linear extensions of Dynamical Systems and Linear Differential Equations.