Introduction ................................................... ix
PART I. UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTIONS ................................. 1
1 The Stone-cech compactification βT ........................... 3
Appendix ..................................................... 7
2 Flows and their enveloping semigroups ....................... 19
3 Minimal sets and minimal right ideals ....................... 27
4 Fundamental notions ......................................... 37
5 Quasi-factors and the circle operator ....................... 54
Appendix .................................................... 60
PART II. EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS AND AUTOMORPHISMS OF FLOWS ...... 65
6 Quotient spaces and relative products ....................... 67
7 Icers on M and automorphisms of M ........................... 83
8 Regular flows .............................................. 103
9 The quasi-relative product ................................. 111
PART III. THE τ-TOPOLOGY ...................................... 125
10 The т-topology on Aut(X) ................................... 127
11 The derived group .......................................... 138
12 Quasi-factors and the τ-topology ........................... 149
PART IV. SUBGROUPS OF G AND THE DYNAMICS OF MINIMAL FLOWS ..... 155
13 The proximal relation and the group P ...................... 157
14 Distal flows and the group D ............................... 167
15 Equicontinuous flows and the group E ....................... 178
Appendix ................................................... 193
16 The regionally proximal relation ........................... 203
PART V. EXTENSIONS OF MINIMAL FLOWS ........................... 209
17 Open and highly proximal extensions ........................ 211
Appendix ................................................... 222
18 Distal extensions of minimal flows ......................... 229
19 Almost periodic extensions of minimal flows ................ 242
20 A tale of four theorems .................................... 257
References .................................................... 264
Index ......................................................... 266
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