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On orbits of endomorphisms of tori and the Schmidt game

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

S. G. Dani
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Bombay 400 005, India
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Abstract

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We show that there exists a subset F of the n-dimensional torus n such that F has Hausdorff dimension n and for any xF and any semisimple automorphism σ of n the closure of the σ-orbit of x contains no periodic points.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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