Ultracoproduct continua and their regular subcontinua (Q306128)

The ultracoproduct of an indexed collection of Tichonov spaces is defined from the usual topological ultraproduct via a compactification process in the style of Wallman and Frink. Ultracoproducts were introduced and studied in [the author, J. Symb. Log. 52, 404--424 (1987; Zbl 0634.54007]. In the paper under review, the author studies ultracoproducts of continua (compact connected Hausdorff spaces). Given an ultracoproduct \(Z\), a regular subcontinuum of \(Z\) is a subcontinuum of \(Z\) which is also an ultracoproduct. The author makes an extensive use of regular subcontinua of an ultraproduct. He gives a partial answer to when ultracoproducts of intervals are intervals. He also studies the composant structure of an ultracopower of a continuum \(X\). He considers the existence of various kinds of noncut points in an ultracoproduct. He generalizes the partition of a standard subcontinuum of the remainder of the Stone-Čech compactification of a the ray \([0,1)\) into its layers. The paper suggests interesting lines of research by offering several open problems.