Almost disjoint families of connected sets

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2004.10.006MaRDI QIDQ2565563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 27 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2004.10.006

almost disjoint family connected subspace continuum locally connected subspace

Cardinality properties (cardinal functions and inequalities, discrete subsets) (54A25) Connected and locally connected spaces (general aspects) (54D05)

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A family of sets \({\mathcal A}\subseteq [X]^{| X| }\) is said to be almost disjoint if for all distinct \(A,B\in\mathcal A\), \(| A\cap B| <| X| \). Let \(\mathbb A\mathbb D(\mathfrak c)\) denote the set of cardinals \(\kappa>\mathfrak c\) for which there exists a family of \(\kappa\) almost disjoint subsets of \(\mathbb R\) and let \(\Gamma\) (respectively, \(\Delta\)) denote the class of separable metrizable spaces for which there exists an almost disjoint family of \(\kappa\) non-trivial connected (respectively, connected and locally connected) subsets for each \(\kappa \in {\mathbb A}{\mathbb D}({\mathfrak c})\). This paper addresses the question of which spaces belong to \(\Gamma\) and \(\Delta\). Typical of the results are the following: 1) If \(n\geq 2\), then \(\mathbb R^{n}\in\Delta\), 2) If \(X\) is compact and dim \(X\geq 2\), then \(X\in\Gamma\), and 3) If \(X\) is a continuum with a point \(p\) such that \(X\setminus \{p\}\) has uncountably many components, then \(X\in\Gamma\). An example is given to show that there is a rational continuum in \(\Gamma\).

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