English

Endpoint-homogeneous fans

General Topology 2024-04-09 v1

Abstract

A fan FF is \emph{endpoint-homogeneous} if for any two endpoints e,ee,e' of FF, there is a homeomorphism h:FFh: F \rightarrow F such that h(e)=eh(e) = e'. We prove there are uncountably many distinct homeomorphism types of endpoint-homogeneous smooth fans. To do this, we associate to each such fan FF a topological invariant, in the form of a characteristic subset EPG(F)[0,1]EPG(F) \subseteq [0,1] describing how the endpoints of FF limit onto any given blade of FF. We describe precisely all the uncountably many different X[0,1]X \subseteq [0,1] that can arise as EPG(F)EPG(F) for some endpoint-homogeneous smooth fan FF. We also prove the existence of 1n\frac{1}{n}-homogeneous smooth fans for all n5n \geq 5.

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@article{arxiv.2404.05709,
  title  = {Endpoint-homogeneous fans},
  author = {Will Brian and Rene Gril Rogina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.05709},
  year   = {2024}
}
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