Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-310) and index.
Summary
"In a very general sense modern theory of smooth dynamical systems deals with smooth actions of "sufficiently large but not too large" groups or semigroups (usually locally compact but not compact) on a "sufficiently small" phase space (usually compact, or, sometimes, finite volume manifolds). Important branches of dynamics specifically consider actions preserving a geometric structure with an infinite-dimensional group of automorphisms, two principal examples being a volume and a symplectic structure. The natural equivalence relation for actions is differentiable (corr. volume preserving or symplectic) conjugacy"-- Provided by publisher.
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