Continua for which connected partitions are compact

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2006.04.014MaRDI QIDQ864444zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 9 February 2007

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2006.04.014

continuous selector dendrite Hausdorff metric partition into compact sets

Quotient spaces, decompositions in general topology (54B15) Hyperspaces in general topology (54B20) Selections in general topology (54C65) Continua and generalizations (54F15)

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For a metric space \(X\), \(2^{X}\) denotes the space of compact subsets of \(X\) with the Hausdorff metric. A partition \(\mathcal S\) of \(X\) into compact subsets is considered to be a subspace of \(2^{X}\). The author investigates for which continua (that is, compact, connected metric spaces) every connected partition into compact subsets is compact. The main positive results are as follows: (1) If \(X\) is a dendrite and \(\mathcal S\) is a connected partition of \(X\) into compacta, then \(\mathcal S\) is homeomorphic to a subcontinuum of \(X\); (2) If a continuum \(X\) contains a non-degenerate, nowhere dense, non-separating subcontinuum, then there is a connected partition of \(X\) into compacta which is not compact, and (3) If \(X\) is a graph, then every connected partition into compacta is compact if and only if \(X\) is a tree or a simple closed curve. Two examples are given; the first is a locally connected continuum \(X\), which is neither a dendrite nor a simple closed curve, with the property that if \(\mathcal S\) is a connected partition of \(X\) into compacta, then \(\mathcal S\) is compact. The second example is that of a non-locally connected continuum \(X\) with the property that the only connected partitions of \(X\) into compacta are \(\{X\}\) and \(\{\{x\}:x\in X\}\).

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