Abstract
Obstructions to groups admitting a free equicontinuous action or distal action are defined and characterized. Some results which relate the order of solvability of a solvable group to the codimension of the flow and the height of a Furstenberg tower for the flow are given.
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Ihrig, E., McMahon, D., Wu, TS. (1988). Distal flows of non abelian groups with finite codimension. In: Alexander, J.C. (eds) Dynamical Systems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1342. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0082839
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