scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1747384

Publication date 10 September 2002

generalized linear graph one-point connectification pathwise connectification

Embedding (54C25) Connected and locally connected spaces (general aspects) (54D05) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35) Continua and generalizations (54F15) Topological spaces of dimension (leq 1); curves, dendrites (54F50) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

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A space \(Y\) is a connectification (respectively, pathwise connectification) of a space \(X\) if \(Y\) is connected (respectively pathwise connected) and \(X\) can be embedded as a dense subspace of \(Y\). If \(X\) can be embedded in \(Y\) in such a way that \(|Y\smallsetminus X|=1\), then \(Y\) is called a one-point connectification (respectively, one-point pathwise connectification) of \(X\). In this article the term arc means a connected compact Hausdorff space with precisely two non-cut points and a linear graph is a union of a finite set \(V\) of vertices and a finite number of arcs such that the end points of each arc are distinct and belong to \(V\). A generalized linear graph is a connected subspace of a linear graph. \textit{A. Fedeli} and \textit{A. Le Donne} [Rend. Mat. Appl., VII. Ser. 18, No. 4, 677-682 (1998; Zbl 0928.54016)] have shown that for a subspace \(X\) of the real line, the following are equivalent: (1) \(X\) has a one-point connectification; (2) \(X\) has a one-point pathwise connectification; (3) Every component of \(X\) is open and non-compact; (4) \(X\) is locally connected and each component is non-compact. In this paper, the author extends this same theorem to subspaces of generalized linear graphs. Remark: The author does not define the term `pathwise connected' in the paper, but with the usual definition of this term found in textbooks, the main result of the paper (Theorem 4) would be false (the compact long line minus a cut-point is a counterexample). This can be corrected either by requiring that arcs are metrizable or by substituting the term arc (as defined in this article) in place of \([0,1]\) in the definition of a pathwise connected space.

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