An atriodic tree-like continuum with positive span which admits a monotone mapping to a chainable continuum
We study the behavior of a continuous flow near a boundary. We prove that if φ is a flow on for which is an invariant set and S ⊂ ∂E is an isolated invariant set, with non-zero homological Conley index, then there exists an x in EE such that either α(x) or ω(x) is in S. We also prove an index theorem for a flow on .
This work provides an evaluating complete description of positive homomorphisms on an arbitrary algebra of real-valued functions.
It is shown that a certain indecomposable chainable continuum is the domain of an exactly two-to-one continuous map. This answers a question of Jo W. Heath.
∗ Supported by Research grants GAUK 190/96 and GAUK 1/1998We prove that the dual unit ball of the space C0 [0, ω1 ) endowed with the weak* topology is not a Valdivia compact. This answers a question posed to the author by V. Zizler and has several consequences. Namely, it yields an example of an affine continuous image of a convex Valdivia compact (in the weak* topology of a dual Banach space) which is not Valdivia, and shows that the property of the dual unit ball being Valdivia is not an isomorphic...
Confluence of a mapping between topological spaces can be defined by several ways. J.J. Charatonik asked if two definitions of the confluence using the components and quasi-components are equivalent for surjective mappings with compact point inverses. We give the negative answer to this question in Example 2.1.
An approximate inverse sequence of plane continua is constructed which negatively answers a question of S. Mardeši’c related to approximate and usual inverse systems. The example also shows that an important result of M.G. Charalambous cannot be improved. As an application, it is shown that a procedure of making an approximate inverse sequence commutative (“taming”) is discontinuous.
It is proved that a piecewise monotone transformation of the unit interval (with a countable number of pieces) is generically chaotic. The Gauss map arising in connection with the continued fraction expansions of the reals is an example of such a transformation.