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Transitive mappings on the Cantor fan

Dynamical Systems 2025-08-13 v2

Abstract

Many continua that admit a transitive homeomorphism may be found in the literature. The circle is probably the simplest non-degenerate continuum that admits such a homeomorphism. On the other hand, most of the known examples of such continua have a complicated topological structure. For example, they are {indecomposable} (such as the pseudo-arc or the Knaster bucket-handle continuum), or they are {not indecomposable} but have some other complicated topological structure, such as a dense set of ramification points (such as the Sierpi\' nski carpet) or a dense set of end-points (such as the Lelek fan). In this paper, we continue our mission of finding continua with simpler topological structures that admit a transitive homeomorphism.} We construct a transitive homeomorphism on the Cantor fan. {In our approach, we use four different techniques, each of them giving a unique construction of a transitive homeomorphism on the Cantor fan:} two techniques using quotient spaces of products of compact metric spaces and Cantor sets, and two using Mahavier products of closed relations on compact metric spaces. {We also demonstrate how our technique using Mahavier products of closed relations may be used to } construct a transitive function ff on a Cantor fan XX such that lim(X,f)\varprojlim(X,f) is a Lelek fan.

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@article{arxiv.2304.03350,
  title  = {Transitive mappings on the Cantor fan},
  author = {Iztok Banič and Goran Erceg and Judy Kennedy and Chris Mouron and Van Nall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.03350},
  year   = {2025}
}
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