Detecting topological and Banach fractals among zero-dimensional spaces
Abstract
A topological space is called a topological fractal if for a finite system of continuous self-maps of , which is topologically contracting in the sense that for every open cover of there is a number such that for any functions , the set is contained in some set . If, in addition, all functions have Lipschitz constant with respect to some metric generating the topology of , then the space 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 is a topological fractal if and only if is a Banach fractal if and only if is either uncountable or is countable and its scattered height 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