English

Singularities of meager composants and filament composants

General Topology 2019-06-07 v9

Abstract

Suppose YY is a continuum, xYx\in Y, and XX is the union of all nowhere dense subcontinua of YY containing xx. Suppose further that there exists yYy\in Y such that every connected subset of XX limiting to yy is dense in XX. And, suppose XX is dense in YY. We prove XX is homeomorphic to a composant of an indecomposable continuum, even though YY may be decomposable. An example establishing the latter was given by Christopher Mouron and Norberto Ordo\~nez in 2016. If YY is chainable or, more generally, an inverse limit of identical topological graphs, then we show YY is indecomposable and XX is a composant of YY. For homogeneous continua we explore similar problems which are related to a 2007 question of Janusz Prajs and Keith Whittington.

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@article{arxiv.1806.10828,
  title  = {Singularities of meager composants and filament composants},
  author = {David Sumner Lipham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10828},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures