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Embedding irreducible connected sets

General Topology 2019-04-15 v6

Abstract

We show that every connected set XX which is irreducible between two points aa and bb embeds into the Hilbert cube in a way that X{c}X\cup \{c\} is irreducible between aa and bb for every point cc in the closure of XX. Also, a connected set XX is indecomposable if and only if for every compactum YXY\supseteq X and aXa\in X there are two points bb and cc in the closure of XX such that X{b,c}X\cup \{b,c\} is irreducible between every two points from {a,b,c}\{a,b,c\}. Following the proofs of these theorems, we illustrate a cube embedding of the main example from "On indecomposability of βX\beta X". We prove the example embeds into the plane.

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@article{arxiv.1804.05440,
  title  = {Embedding irreducible connected sets},
  author = {David Sumner Lipham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05440},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, 7 figures

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