The nonexistence of expansive homeomorphisms of Peano continua in the plane (Q749912): Difference between revisions

A homeomorphism \(f:X\to X\) of a metric space is called expansive provided there is \(c>0\) such that if x,y are two elements of X then there exists \(n\in {\mathbb{Z}}\) for which \(d(f^ n(x),f^ n(y))>c\). The author proves that planar Peano continua do not admit expansive homeomorphisms. There are open questions posed as problems, one of which is: does there exist a plane continuum which admits an expansive homeomorphism? It is noted, however, that \textit{M. Barge} has informed the author that such an example exists.