On hyperspaces and homeomorphism groups homeomorphic to products of absorbing sets and \(R^\infty\) (Q5954672)

The following two results are proved: (1) For a topological space \(X\) the pair \((K(X), F(X))\) of hyperspaces of compact and of finite subsets of \(X\) is homeomorphic to \((Q\times{\mathbb{R}}^{\infty}, {\sigma}\times{\mathbb{R}}^{\infty})\) if and only if \(X\) is a direct limit of a tower \(X_1\subset X_2\subset\cdots\) of strongly countable-dimensional Peano continua such that each \(X_n\) is nowhere dense in \(X_{n+1}\). (2) The triple \((H^c({\mathbb{R}}), H^c_{LIP}({\mathbb{R}}), H^c_{PL}({\mathbb{R}}))\) of homeomorphism groups of the real line \({\mathbb{R}}\), endowed with the Whitney topology, is homeomorphic to \((s\times{R}^{\infty}, {\Sigma}\times{\mathbb{R}}^{\infty}, {\sigma}\times{\mathbb{R}}^{\infty})\).