Inverse limits and atomic projections (Q2215635)

In [Topol. Proc. 42, 327--340 (2013; Zbl 1296.54036)], \textit{W. T. Ingram} showed that if the linearized version of the $\sin(1/x)$ functions is used as the single bonding function in an inverse limit system on $[0,1]$ the resulting inverse limit space is chainable. He showed that the inverse system consisting of a sequence of sinusoids as bonding functions has a chainable inverse limit [\textit{W. T. Ingram}, ibid. 53, 243--254 (2019; Zbl 1430.54034)]. \textit{J. P. Kelly} [Topology Appl. 176, 57--75 (2014; Zbl 1305.54042)] generalized Ingram's result by considering inverse systems with a single irreducible function as bonding function. In the present paper, the authors consider a sequence of upper semi-continuous bonding functions, $F_n:X_{n+1}\longrightarrow 2^{X_n}$, with the property that for each $n$ the projection of Graph($F_n$) on to the second (first) factor is an atomic map and images (pre-image) of points are zero-dimensional. For such bonding functions they show under some easily verified conditions that if the first factor space has (all factor spaces have) a certain property then the inverse limit space must have this property. The properties considered include: hereditary decomposability, heriditary unicoherence, arc-likeness and tree-likeness. Finally, they illustrate the theorems by several examples.