English

Homotopy in non metrizable omega-bounded surfaces

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We investigate the problem of describing the homotopy classes [X,Y][X,Y] of continuous functions between ω\omega-bounded non metrizable manifolds X,YX,Y. We define a family of surfaces XX built with the first octant CC in L2L^2 (LL is the longline and RR the longray), and show that [X,R][X,R] is in bijection with so called `adapted' subsets of a partially ordered set. We also show that [M,R][M,R] can be computed for some surfaces MM that, unlike CC, do not contain RR. This indicates that when X,YX,Y are ω\omega-bounded non metrizable surfaces, there might be a link between [X,Y][X,Y] and the concept of YY-directions in X$. Many pictures are used and the proofs are quite detailed.

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@article{arxiv.math/0603515,
  title  = {Homotopy in non metrizable omega-bounded surfaces},
  author = {Mathieu Baillif},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603515},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

17 pages, 13 figures. Version 2 : minor corrections, Appendix B replaced by a reference

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