The functor of weakly additive functionals of finite degree.
It is shown that the hyperspace of non-empty finite subsets of a space X is an ANR (an AR) for stratifiable spaces if and only if X is a 2-hyper-locally-connected (and connected) stratifiable space.
A homeomorphism f:X → X of a compactum X with metric d is expansive if there is c > 0 such that if x, y ∈ X and x ≠ y, then there is an integer n ∈ ℤ such that . In this paper, we prove that if a homeomorphism f:X → X of a continuum X can be lifted to an onto map h:P → P of the pseudo-arc P, then f is not expansive. As a corollary, we prove that there are no expansive homeomorphisms on chainable continua. This is an affirmative answer to one of Williams’ conjectures.
We study the set functions 𝓣 and 𝒦 on irreducible continua. We present several properties of these functions when defined on irreducible continua. In particular, we characterize the class of irreducible continua for which these functions are continuous. We also characterize the class of 𝒦-symmetric irreducible continua.
The hyperspaces and in consisting respectively of all compact absolute neighborhood retracts and all compact absolute retracts are studied. It is shown that both have the Borel type of absolute -spaces and that, indeed, they are not -spaces. The main result is that is an absorber for the class of all absolute -spaces and is therefore homeomorphic to the standard model space of this class.
Let be the space of all non-empty closed convex sets in Euclidean space ℝ ⁿ endowed with the Fell topology. We prove that for every n > 1 whereas .
Let X be an atom (= hereditarily indecomposable continuum). Define a metric ϱ on X by letting where is the (unique) minimal subcontinuum of X which contains x and y and W is a Whitney map on the set of subcontinua of X with W(X) = 1. We prove that ϱ is an ultrametric and the topology of (X,ϱ) is stronger than the original topology of X. The ϱ-closed balls C(x,r) = y ∈ X:ϱ ( x,y) ≤ r coincide with the subcontinua of X. (C(x,r) is the unique subcontinuum of X which contains x and has Whitney value...