Overlays and group actions

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2016.03.031MaRDI QIDQ284600zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Dydak

Publication date 18 May 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0477

zbMATH Keywords

covering mapsoverlaysparacompactness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10)

Abstract: Overlays were introduced by R. H. Fox [6] as a subclass of covering maps. We offer a different view of overlays: it resembles the definition of paracompact spaces via star refinements of open covers. One introduces covering structures for covering maps and $p:XoY$ is an overlay if it has a covering structure that has a star refinement. We prove two characterizations of overlays: one using existence and uniqueness of lifts of discrete chains, the second as maps inducing simplicial coverings of nerves of certain covers. We use those characterizations to improve results of Eda-Matijevi' c concerning topological group structures on domains of overlays whose range is a compact topological group. In case of surjective maps $p:XoY$ between connected metrizable spaces we characterize overlays as local isometries: $p:XoY$ is an overlay if and only if one can metrize $X$ and $Y$ in such a way that $p|B(x,1):B(x,1)oB(p(x),1)$ is an isometry for each $xinX$.

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