Dynamical Systems: Proceedings of the Special Year Held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1986-87 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics (1342))

The Papers In This Volume Reflect The Richness And Diversity Of The Subject Of Dynamics. Some Are Lectures Given At The Three Conferences (ergodic Theory And Topological Dynamics, Symbolic Dynamics And Coding Theory And Smooth Dynamics, Dynamics And Applied Dynamics) Held In Maryland Between October 1986 And March 1987; Some Are Work Which Was In Progress During The Special Year, And Some Are Work Which Was Done Because Of Questions And Problems Raised At The Conferences. In Addition, A Paper Of John Milnor And William Thurston, Versions Of Which Had Been Available As Notes But Not Yet Published, Is Included. From The Contents: V. Bergelson, D.j. Rudolph: Weakly Mixing Actions Of F Have Infinite Subgroup Actions With Bernoulli -- V.j. Donnay: Geodesic Flow On The Two-sphere Ergodicity -- D. Fried: Counting Circles -- C. Grebogi, H.e. Nusse, E. Ott, J.a. Yorke: Basic Sets: Sets That Determine The Dimension Of Basin Boundaries -- S. Hurder: Ergodic Theory Of Foliations And A Theorem Of Sacksteder -- J. Milnor, W. Thurston: On Iterated Maps Of The Interval. J.c. Alexander, Ed. Papers From Conferences, Research Projects, And Tutorials Sponsored By The Dept. Of Mathematics, University Of Maryland, College Park. Includes Bibliographies. Annotation The papers in this volume reflect the richness and diversity of the subject of dynamics. Some are lectures given at the three conferences (Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, Symbolic Dynamics and Coding Theory and Smooth Dynamics, Dynamics and Applied Dynamics) held in Maryland between October 1986 and March 1987; some are work which was in progress during the Special Year, and some are work which was done because of questions and problems raised at the conferences. In addition, a paper of John Milnor and William Thurston, versions of which had been available as notes but not yet published, is included