Reconstructing compact metrizable spaces

DOI10.1090/PROC/13270MaRDI QIDQ2832841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Gartside, Max F. Pitz, Rolf Suabedissen

Publication date 14 November 2016

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02654

zbMATH Keywords

finite compactificationsreconstruction conjecturetopological reconstructionuniversal sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isomorphism problems in graph theory (reconstruction conjecture, etc.) and homomorphisms (subgraph embedding, etc.) (05C60) Subspaces in general topology (54B05) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45)

Abstract: The deck, $mathcalD(X)$, of a topological space $X$ is the set $mathcalD(X)=[Xsetminusx]colonxinX$, where $[Y]$ denotes the homeomorphism class of $Y$. A space $X$ is (topologically) reconstructible if whenever $mathcalD(Z)=mathcalD(X)$ then $Z$ is homeomorphic to $X$. It is known that every (metrizable) continuum is reconstructible, whereas the Cantor set is non-reconstructible. The main result of this paper characterises the non-reconstructible compact metrizable spaces as precisely those where for each point $x$ there is a sequence $langle{B}_n^{x}colonninmathbbNangle$ of pairwise disjoint clopen subsets converging to $x$ such that $B_n^x$ and $B_n^y$ are homeomorphic for each $n$, and all $x$ and $y$. In a non-reconstructible compact metrizable space the set of $1$-point components forms a dense $G_{d}elta$. For $h$-homogeneous spaces, this condition is sufficient for non-reconstruction. A wide variety of spaces with a dense $G_{d}elta$ set of $1$-point components are presented, some reconstructible and others not reconstructible.

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