An uncountable family of metric compactifications of the ray with remainder pseudo-arc. (Q1421977)

The author constructs an uncountable collection of metric compactification of the ray \([0,\infty)\) with the pseudo-arc as the remainder. The case when the remainder is the circle is contained in the classical result of \textit{Z. Waraszkiewicz} [Fundam. Math. 18, 118--137 (1932; Zbl 0004.22602)], and for the arc in the role of the remainder an analogous result was obtained by \textit{M. M. Awartani} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 118, 239--245 (1993; Zbl 0837.54026)]). In order to get a particular compactification of the ray with the pseudo-arc as the remainder, it is sufficient to consider for each chain, from the sequence which serves for describing the pseudo-arc, an arc which goes without new oscillations along the chain, and to join these arcs into a ray the closure of which is topologically the pseudo-arc. In order to get an uncountable collection, appropriate subsequences of chains together with the arcs simulating the patterns of chains (as described above) should be considered. In the final part of the proof, in order to show that the compactifications are topologically distinct, the author refers only to the indecomposability of the remainder. Thus, the specific use of the properties of the pseudo-arc is concentrated in Lemma 5. According to this lemma, there exists a subsequence of chains such that if an arc simulating a given chain belonging to this subsequence is embedded into the arc simulating a subsequent chain in such a way that the diameter of the images is comparable with that of the remainder, some very small subarcs enlarge to that extent, too.