Rotation topological factors of minimal $\mathbb {Z}^{d}$-actions on the Cantor set

2006

In this paper we study conditions under which a free minimal Z d -action on the Cantor set is a topological extension of the action of d rotations, either on the product T d of d 1-tori or on a single 1-torus T 1 . We extend the notion of linearly recurrent systems defined for Z-actions on the Cantor set to Z d -actions, and we derive in this more general setting a necessary and sufficient condition, which involves a natural combinatorial data associated with the action, allowing the existence of a rotation topological factor of one of these two types.