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Examples of strongly rigid countable (semi)Hausdorff spaces

General Topology 2023-04-18 v5

Abstract

A topological space XX is stronglystrongly rigidrigid if each non-constant continuous map f:XXf:X\to X is the identity map of XX. A Hausdorff topological space XX is called BrownBrown if for any nonempty open sets U,VXU,V\subseteq X the intersection UˉVˉ\bar U\cap\bar V is infinite. We prove that every second-countable Brown Hausdorff space XX admits a stronger topology τ\tau' such that X=(X,τ)X'=(X,\tau') is a strongly rigid anticompact Brown space.This construction yields an example of a countable anticompact Hausdorff space XX which is strongly rigid, which answers two problems posed at MathOverflow. By the same method we construct a strongly rigid k2k_2-metrizable semi-Hausdorff space containing a non-closed compact subset, which answers two other problem posed at MathOverflow.

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@article{arxiv.2211.12579,
  title  = {Examples of strongly rigid countable (semi)Hausdorff spaces},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Yaryna Stelmakh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.12579},
  year   = {2023}
}

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