Discrete homogeneity and ends of manifolds

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Abstract: It is shown that a connected non-compact metrizable manifold of dimension ge2 is strongly discrete homogeneous if and only if it has one end (in the sense of Freudenthal compactification).


The authors of the present paper define a topological space to be \textit {discrete homogeneous} if for any couple of discrete subsets of the same cardinality one can find a homeomorphism of the space sending the first subspace into the second one. Furthermore, if any bijection of the two subspaces extends to a homeomorphism of the whole space, then the space is said to be \textit{strongly discrete homogeneous}. Examples of strongly discrete homogeneous spaces are compact connected \(n\)-manifolds, for \(n\geq 2\), and the Euclidean spaces of dimension at least two. The main problem addressed in the paper is to understand which metrizable manifolds have such properties, and the authors prove, with new techniques, the following nice old result, which relates the somehow local property of being homogeneous with the topological behaviour at infinity: ``For any \(n\geq 2\), a connected manifold \(M^n\) is strongly discrete homogeneous if and only if it is has at most one end.











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