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On Raymond-Williams' example

Geometric Topology 2019-09-30 v1

Abstract

Raymond and Wiliams in "Examples of p-adic transformation groups", Ann. of Math. (2) 78 (1963) 92-106, constructed an action of the p-adic integers on an n-dimensional compactum, n>1, with the orbit space of dimension n+2. We present a simpler construction of such an example.

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@article{arxiv.1909.12660,
  title  = {On Raymond-Williams' example},
  author = {Michael Levin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.12660},
  year   = {2019}
}
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