Some steps on short bridges: non-metrizable surfaces and CW-complexes

DOI10.1007/S40062-012-0001-8MaRDI QIDQ691253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mathieu Baillif

Publication date 30 November 2012

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3710

zbMATH Keywords

homotopy equivalencenon-metrizable surfacesPrüfer surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

Abstract: Among the classical variants of the Pr"ufer surface, some are homotopy equivalent to a CW-complex (namely, a point or a wedge of a continuum of circles) and some are not. The obstruction comes from the existence of uncountably many `infinitesimal bridges' linking two metrizable open subsurfaces inside the surface. We show that any non-metrizable surface that possesses such a system of infinitesimal bridges cannot be homotopy equivalent to a CW-complex. More than for the result on its own, we were motivated by trying to blend elementary techniques of algebraic and set-theoretic topology.

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