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The Kirch space is topologically rigid

General Topology 2022-02-08 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

The GolombGolomb spacespace (resp. the KirchKirch spacespace) is the set N\mathbb N of positive integers endowed with the topology generated by the base consisting of arithmetic progressions a+bN0={a+bn:n0}a+b\mathbb N_0=\{a+bn:n\ge 0\} where aNa\in\mathbb N and bb is a (square-free) number, coprime with aa. It is known that the Golomb space (resp. the Kirch space) is connected (and locally connected). By a recent result of Banakh, Spirito and Turek, the Golomb space has trivial homeomorphism group and hence is topologically rigid. In this paper we prove the topological rigidity of the Kirch space.

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@article{arxiv.2006.12357,
  title  = {The Kirch space is topologically rigid},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Yaryna Stelmakh and Sławomir Turek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12357},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages

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