Topological classification of scattered IFS-attractors (Q391367)

The reviewer considers the last part of the author's introduction as most illustrative of the content of the paper.NEWLINENEWLINE``We study topological properties of scattered IFS-attractors. It is easy to see that each finite set is an IFS-attractor in every metric space. We present an example of a convergent sequence of real numbers (a countable compact set in \(\mathbb R\)), which is not an IFS-attractor. We further investigate more complicated scattered compact spaces and classify them with respect to the property of being a topological IFS-attractor. Namely, we show that every countable compact metric space of successor Cantor-Bendixson height with a single point of the maximal rank can be embedded topologically into the real line so that it becomes the attractor of an IFS consisting of two contractions whose Lipschitz constants are as small as we wish. On the other hand, we show that if a countable compact metric space is a topological IFS-attractor, then its Cantor-Bendixson height cannot be a limit ordinal.NEWLINENEWLINECombining our results, we get an example of a countable compact metric space \(\mathcal K\) (namely, a space of height \(\omega +1\)) which is an IFS-attractor, however, some clopen subset of \(\mathcal K\) is not an IFS-attractor, even after changing its metric to an equivalent one.''