On supertightness and function spaces
In [7], M. Levin proved that the set of all Bing maps of a compact metric space to the unit interval is a dense -subset of the space of all maps. In [6], J. Krasinkiewicz independently proved that the set of all Bing maps of a compact metric space to an n-dimensional manifold (n ≥ 1) is a dense -subset of the space of maps. In [9], J. Song and E. D. Tymchatyn, solving some problems of J. Krasinkiewicz ([6]), proved that the set of all Bing maps of a compact metric space to a nondegenerate connected...
We discuss the following result of A. Szymański in “Retracts and non-normality points" (2012), Corollary 3.5.: If is a closed subspace of and the -weight of is countable, then every nonisolated point of is a non-normality point of . We obtain stronger results for all types of points, excluding the limits of countable discrete sets considered in “Some non-normal subspaces of the Čech–Stone compactification of a discrete space" (1980) by A. Błaszczyk and A. Szymański. Perhaps our proofs...
A dynamical version of the Bourgain-Fremlin-Talagrand dichotomy shows that the enveloping semigroup of a dynamical system is either very large and contains a topological copy of β𝓝, or it is a "tame" topological space whose topology is determined by the convergence of sequences. In the latter case we say that the dynamical system is tame. We show that (i) a metric distal minimal system is tame iff it is equicontinuous, (ii) for an abelian acting group a tame metric minimal system is PI (hence a...
Solenoids are inverse limits of the circle, and the classical knot theory is the theory of tame embeddings of the circle into 3-space. We make a general study, including certain classification results, of tame embeddings of solenoids into 3-space, seen as the "inverse limits" of tame embeddings of the circle. Some applications in topology and in dynamics are discussed. In particular, there are tamely embedded solenoids Σ ⊂ ℝ³ which are strictly achiral. Since solenoids are non-planar,...
Answering a question of Telgársky in the negative, it is shown that there is a space which is β-favorable in the strong Choquet game, but all of its nonempty -subspaces are of the second category in themselves.
A sequence (f n)n of functions f n: X → ℝ almost decreases (increases) to a function f: X → ℝ if it pointwise converges to f and for each point x ∈ X there is a positive integer n(x) such that f n+1(x) ≤ f n (x) (f n+1(x) ≥ f n(x)) for n ≥ n(x). In this article I investigate this convergence in some families of continuous functions.
A solution of the Feigenbaum functional equation is called a Feigenbaum map. We investigate the likely limit set (i.e. the maximal attractor in the sense of Milnor) of a non-unimodal Feigenbaum map, prove that it is a minimal set that attracts almost all points, and then estimate its Hausdorff dimension. Finally, for every s ∈ (0,1), we construct a non-unimodal Feigenbaum map with a likely limit set whose Hausdorff dimension is s.