An embedding of the Cantor fan into the Lelek fan
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arXiv2305.05339MaRDI QIDQ6435896FDOQ6435896
Authors: Iztok Banič, Goran Erceg, Judy Kennedy 
Publication date: 9 May 2023
Abstract: The Lelek fan is usually constructed as a subcontinuum of the Cantor fan in such a way that the set of the end-points of is dense in . It easily follows that the Lelek fan is embeddable into the Cantor fan. {It is also a well-known fact that the Cantor fan is embeddable into the Lelek fan, but this is less obvious. When proving this, one usually uses the well-known result by Dijkstra and van Mill that the Cantor set is embeddable into the complete Erd"os space, and the well-known fact by Kawamura, Oversteegen, and Tymchatyn that the set of end-points of the Lelek fan is homeomorphic to the complete Erd"os space. Then, the subcontinuum of the Lelek fan that is induced by the embedded Cantor set into the set of end-points of the Lelek fan, is a Cantor fan. In our paper, we give an alternative straightforward construction of a Cantor fan into the Lelek fan. We do not use the fact that the Cantor set is embeddable into the complete Erd"os space and that it is homeomorphic to the set of end-points of the Lelek fan. Instead, we use our recent techniques of Mahavier products of closed relations to produce an embedding of the Cantor fan into the Lelek fan. Since the Cantor fan is universal for the family of all smooth fans, it follows that also the Lelek fan is universal for smooth fans.
Set-valued maps in general topology (54C60) Continua theory in dynamics (37B45) Continua and generalizations (54F15) Dynamics in general topological spaces (37B02) Inverse limits of set-valued functions (54F17)
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