A monotonically irreducible map of a reducible continuum onto [0,1]

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2010.05.009MaRDI QIDQ989095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piotr Minc

Publication date 27 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2010.05.009

zbMATH Keywords

irreducible and reducible continua monotone map monotonically irreducible

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continua and generalizations (54F15)

Review text

A mapping between metric continua \(f:X\to Y\) is said to be (a) monotone provided that \(f^{-1}(B)\) is connected for each subcontinuum \(B\) of \(Y\), and (b) monotonically reducible, if there is a proper closed subset \(D\) of \(X\) for which the restriction of \(f\) to \(D\) is a monotone map of \(D\) onto \(Y\). A monotone surjective mapping is monotonically irreducible if it is not monotonically reducible. In 1978, in Problem 101 of The Houston problem book [\textit{H. Cook, W. T. Ingram, A. Lelek}, A list of problems known as Houston Problem Book. Continua with the Houston problem book. Based on the special session on modern methods in continuum theory, held within the 100th annual joint mathematics meetings in Cincinnati, OH, USA, January 12--15, 1994. New York: Marcel Dekker. Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 170, 365--398 (1995; Zbl 0828.54001)], L. Mohler and L. E. Ward asked whether each continuum that admits a monotonically irreducible mapping onto \([0,1]\) must be irreducible. In the paper under review, the author constructs an example of a metric continuum which answers this question in the negative.

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