Embedding of the dunce hat

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2013-11551-0MaRDI QIDQ2839324zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Józef Krasinkiewicz, Stanisław Spież

Publication date 5 July 2013

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-2013-11551-0

zbMATH Keywords

Borsuk's exampleembeddingsquasi-embeddings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embedding (54C25) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45) Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

Review text

The authors prove that the Borsuk contractible non-collapsible 2-polyhedron, commonly called the \(dunce\) \(hat\), does not embed in any product of two curves but quasi-embeds in the \textit{three-page book}. Their purpose is to show that for every positive integer \(n\) there exists a polyhedron \(X\) which quasi-embeds in the finite product of Menger curve \(\mu ^{n}\) but does not embed in \(\mu ^{n}\). They also ask for a possible characterization of the 2-dimensional polyhedra that are quasi-embeddable in a product of two curves.

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