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Span, chainability and the continua H* and I_u

General Topology 2014-04-01 v2 Logic

Abstract

We show that the continua I_u and H* are non-chainable and have span nonzero. Under CH this can be strengthened to surjective symmetric span nonzero. We discuss the logical consequences of this.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0308162,
  title  = {Span, chainability and the continua H* and I_u},
  author = {K. P. Hart and B. J. van der Steeg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0308162},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

2004-03-11: corrected some typos, some parts rewritten