The generalized Aron-Maestre comb (Q2822586)

This paper focuses on spaces which are not separably connected. A space is separably connected if any two points can be joined by a separable connected subset. A number of connected spaces which are not separably connected may be found throughout the literature. However, their construction and the justification of the mentioned properties usually turn out to be complicated.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper the author defines a metric on \(\mathbb R \times (0, \infty) \cup \mathbb Q \times \{0\}\), and provides a simple proof (without the axiom of choice) that the obtained space is connected but not separably connected. Furthermore, the author generalizes his specific construction: for each uncountable collection of pairwise disjoint dense subsets of the Euclidean line he defines a corresponding metric on \(\mathbb R \times (0, \infty) \cup \mathbb Q \times \{0\}\) so that the obtained space is connected, not separably connected and not completely metrizable.