On some problem of Borsuk concerning decompositions of shapes into prime factors

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2015.12.054MaRDI QIDQ5963986zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Danuta Kołodziejczyk

Publication date 26 February 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2015.12.054

zbMATH Keywords

compactumprime factorshapeshape factorthe character group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Shape theory (55P55)

Review text

The Cartesian product \(X\times Y\) represents the product in the category of topological spaces and continuous mappings. The notion of the product generalizes to every category. One may ask whether the shape functor preserves products. It does when \(X\) and \(Y\) are polyhedra or compact Hausdorff spaces. So when \(Sh(X\times Y) = Sh(X)\times Sh(Y)\), then \(Sh(X)\) and \(Sh(Y)\) are called factors. \(Sh(X)\) is prime if it is non-trivial and cannot be decomposed into a product of two non-trivial shapes. In dimension greater than 3 there are more results treating such decompositions which need not be unique. The author treats dimension 3 and shows the existence of a 3-dimensional continuum with two different decompositions into a direct product of prime factors in the shape category. The examples are constructed as the character groups of discrete torsion free Abelian groups having certain properties.

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