-spaces and the Wallman compactification.
A homeomorphism h: X → X of a compactum X is expansive provided that for some fixed c > 0 and every x, y ∈ X (x ≠ y) there exists an integer n, dependent only on x and y, such that d(hⁿ(x),hⁿ(y)) > c. It is shown that if X is a solenoid that admits an expansive homeomorphism, then X is homeomorphic to a regular solenoid. It can then be concluded that a circle-like continuum admits an expansive homeomorphism if and only if it is homeomorphic to a regular solenoid.
We prove that, for any Hausdorff continuum X, if dim X ≥ 2 then the hyperspace C(X) of subcontinua of X is not a C-space; if dim X = 1 and X is hereditarily indecomposable then either dim C(X) = 2 or C(X) is not a C-space. This generalizes some results known for metric continua.
We prove that every Baire subspace Y of c₀(Γ) has a dense metrizable subspace X with dim X ≤ dim Y. We also prove that the Kimura-Morishita Eberlein compactifications of metrizable spaces preserve large inductive dimension. The proofs rely on new and old results concerning the dimension of uniform spaces.
Answering a question of Isbell we show that there exists a rim-compact space X such that every compactification Y of X has dim(Y)≥ 1.
For a separable metric space X, we consider possibilities for the sequence where . In Section 1, a general method for producing examples is given which can be used to realize many of the possible sequences. For example, there is such that , , for n >1, such that , and Z such that S(Z) = 4, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9,.... In Section 2, a subset X of is shown to exist which satisfies and .
The local structure of homogeneous continua (curves) is studied. Components of open subsets of each homogeneous curve which is not a solenoid have the disjoint arcs property. If the curve is aposyndetic, then the components are nonplanar. A new characterization of solenoids is formulated: a continuum is a solenoid if and only if it is homogeneous, contains no terminal nontrivial subcontinua and small subcontinua are not ∞-ods.
In this paper we characterize local dendrites which are the images of themselves under local homeomorphisms of degree for each positive integer .