(Non)connectedness and (non)homogeneity

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2014.08.022MaRDI QIDQ465854zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vitalij A. Chatyrko, A. Karassev

Publication date 24 October 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2014.08.022

zbMATH Keywords

components of path connectedness homogeneous spaces local connectedness local contractibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Product spaces in general topology (54B10) Connected and locally connected spaces (general aspects) (54D05)

Review text

A topological space \(X\) is homogeneous if for all \(x,y\in X\) there exists a homeomorphism \(f: X\to X\) such that \(f(x)=y\). In this paper the authors study among other things the class \(\mathcal A\) of compacta that are a continuous image of a homogeneous compactum. It is unknown whether \(\mathcal A\) coincides with the class of all compacta. It is known that all compact metric spaces belong to \(\mathcal A\). Under the Continuum Hypothesis, even all compact first-countable spaces belong to \(\mathcal A\). But so far, no example of a compact homogeneous space with cellularity greater than the continuum is known. The authors obtain several result on (non)homogeneity of products using points of local connectedness (or local contractibility) and components of path connectedness and pose some interesting problems.

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