Diagonals separating the square of a continuum
General Topology
2022-12-21 v1 Dynamical Systems
Abstract
A metric continuum is indecomposable if it cannot be put as the union of two of its proper subcontinua. A subset of is said to be continuumwise connected provided that for each pair of points , there exists a subcontinuum of such that . Let denote the Cartesian square of and the diagonal of . In \cite{ka} it was asked if for a continuum , distinct from the arc, is continuumwise connected if and only if is decomposable. In this paper we show that no implication in this question holds. For the proof of the non-necessity, we use the dynamic properties of a suitable homeomorphism of the Cantor set onto itself to construct an appropriate indecomposable continuum .
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@article{arxiv.2212.09893,
title = {Diagonals separating the square of a continuum},
author = {Alejandro Illanes and Verónica Martínez-de-la-Vega and Jorge M. Martínez-Montejano and Daria Michalik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09893},
year = {2022}
}