Compact group actions that raise dimension to infinity

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(97)00008-4MaRDI QIDQ1371930zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexander Dranishnikov, James E. West

Publication date 6 November 1997

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212329

zbMATH Keywords

cohomological dimensioncompact group actiondimension raising map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10) Finite groups of transformations in algebraic topology (including Smith theory) (55M35) Compact groups of homeomorphisms (57S10)

Abstract: THEOREM. For every prime $p$ and each $n=2,3,\mathrm{...}infty$, there is an action of $G=pro{d}_{i=1}^{infty}(Z/pZ)$ on a two-dimensional compact metric space $X$ with $n$-dimensional orbit space. This theorem was proved in [DW: A.N. Dranishnikov and J.E. West, Compact group actions that raise dimension to infinity, Topology and its Applications 80 (1997), 101-114] with an error in one of the lemmas (Lemma 15). This paper presents a corrected version of Lemma 15 and it is identical with [DW] in the rest.

Review text

Let \(G=\prod^\infty_{i=1} (\mathbb{Z}_p)_i\), where \(p\) is any prime. The main result of the paper asserts that for each compact metric space \(Y\) and every prime \(p\), \(Y\) can be represented as the orbit space of an action of \(G\) on some compact metric space \(X\) such that \(\dim_{\mathbb{Z}_p} X=1\). From this theorem two interesting results are derived, concerning dimension-raising for actions of torsion groups on compacta. It is shown that dimension can be raised by an arbitrary amount if the acting group has enough torsion.

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