scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1191171
Any metrizable continuum which is hereditarily indecomposable is referred to as an atom. It is known by work of \textit{R. H. Bing} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 71, 267-273 (1951; Zbl 0043.16901)] that there exist atoms of all dimensions. This paper deals with the structure of the set of subcontinua of an atom. Let \(X\) be an atom. The authors define, for each Whitney map \(W\) on the set \(C(X)\) of all subcontinua of \(X\), a certain (ultra) metric \(\rho\) on \(X\). The corresponding space \((X,\rho)\) is called the ultrametric atom associated with \(W\). As a first main result it is shown that any two nontrivial ultrametric atoms \((X_1,\rho_1)\), \((X_2,\rho_2)\) are isometric. Noting from this that the ultrametric does not distinguish atoms, the research is then directed to a richer structure. Let \(M(X)\) denote the set of all upper semicontinuous decompositions of \(X\). This becomes a lattice when ordered by refinement. The second main result is that for two atoms \(X\), \(Y\), \(M(X)\) is lattice isomorphic to \(M(Y)\) if and only if \(X\) is homeomorphic to \(Y\).
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