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On continuous self-maps and homeomorphisms of the Golomb space

General Topology 2021-11-01 v7 Number Theory

Abstract

The Golomb space Nτ\mathbb N_\tau is the set N\mathbb N of positive integers endowed with the topology τ\tau generated by the base consisting of arithmetic progressions {a+bn}n=0\{a+bn\}_{n=0}^\infty with coprime a,ba,b. We prove that the Golomb space Nτ\mathbb N_\tau has continuum many continuous self-maps, contains a countable disjoint family of infinite closed connected subsets, the set Π\Pi of prime numbers is a dense metrizable subspace of Nτ\mathbb N_\tau, and each homeomorphism hh of Nτ\mathbb N_\tau has the following properties: h(1)=1h(1)=1, h(Π)=Πh(\Pi)=\Pi and Πh(x)=h(Πx)\Pi_{h(x)}=h(\Pi_x) for all xNx\in\mathbb N. Here by Πx\Pi_x we denote the set of prime divisors of xx.

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@article{arxiv.1711.06749,
  title  = {On continuous self-maps and homeomorphisms of the Golomb space},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Jerzy Mioduszewski and Slawomir Turek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06749},
  year   = {2021}
}

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