Feeding and killing end points in chainable continua (Q2665215)
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Feeding and killing end points in chainable continua (English)
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18 November 2021
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\textit{R. Adikari} and \textit{W. Lewis} [Houston J. Math. 45, No. 2, 609--624 (2019; Zbl 1429.54038)] noted that the set of end points of a non-degenerate, hereditarily decomposable chainable continuum \(X\) is a hereditarily disconnected non-empty nowhere dense \(G_\delta\)-subset of \(X\). They showed that for any zero-dimensional compact space \(F\) there exists a hereditarily decomposable chainable continuum whose set of end points is homeomorphic to \(F\). In this interesting paper, the author shows, answering questions of Adikari and Lewis, that every zero-dimensional Polish space is (homeomorphic to) the set of end points of a Suslian chainable continuum. Hence the space of irrational numbers is among the set of end points of such a continuum. It remains an intriguing open problem whether the set of end points of a hereditarily decomposable (respectively: Suslian) chainable continuum can be one-dimensional. There are several natural candidates for such a set: Kuratowski's graph, complete Erdős space, etc.
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condensation of singularities
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chainable continuum
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hereditarily decomposable continuum
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end point
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