The covering dimension of Wood spaces (Q4551985)

A locally compact space \(L\) is a Wood space (resp. almost Wood space) if \(C_0(L)\), the Banach space of continuous complex-valued functions on the space \(L\) vanishing at infinity, is a transitive (resp. almost transitive) Banach space with dimension greater than one; a Banach space \(X\) is transitive if the group \(G(X)\) of linear surjective isometries of \(X\) acts transitively on the unit sphere \(S(X)\); the space \(X\) is said to be almost transitive if the orbits of \(G\) are dense in \(S(X)\). In this paper, the author gives necessary and sufficient conditions on the locally compact space \(L\) for \(C_0(L)\) to be almost transitive; he also proves that if \(L\) is an almost Wood space such that its one-point compactification \(\alpha L\) is metrizable, then \(\dim L= \dim\alpha L= 1\) where `dim' denotes covering dimension.