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Detecting topological and Banach fractals among zero-dimensional spaces

General Topology 2016-02-23 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A topological space XX is called a topological fractal if X=fFf(X)X=\bigcup_{f\in\mathcal F}f(X) for a finite system F\mathcal F of continuous self-maps of XX, which is topologically contracting in the sense that for every open cover U\mathcal U of XX there is a number nNn\in\mathbb N such that for any functions f1,,fnFf_1,\dots,f_n\in \mathcal F, the set f1fn(X)f_1\circ\dots\circ f_n(X) is contained in some set UUU\in\mathcal U. If, in addition, all functions fFf\in\mathcal F have Lipschitz constant <1<1 with respect to some metric generating the topology of XX, then the space XX is called a Banach fractal. It is known that each topological fractal is compact and metrizable. We prove that a zero-dimensional compact metrizable space XX is a topological fractal if and only if XX is a Banach fractal if and only if XX is either uncountable or XX is countable and its scattered height (X)\hbar(X) is a successor ordinal. For countable compact spaces this classification was recently proved by M.Nowak.

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@article{arxiv.1503.06396,
  title  = {Detecting topological and Banach fractals among zero-dimensional spaces},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Magdalena Nowak and Filip Strobin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06396},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages