Questions tagged [gn.general-topology]
Continuum theory, point-set topology, spaces with algebraic structure, foundations, dimension theory, local and global properties.
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A detail in Brown's proof of the generalized Schoenflies theorem
Consider a homeomorphic embedding $h:S^{n-1}\times [0,1]\rightarrow S^n$ and denote
$$S^{n-1}_t=h(S^{n-1}\times \{t\}).$$
The generalized Schoenflies theorem states the closure of each connected ...
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path category and classifying space
Let $\mathbf{Top}$ be the category of topological spaces and continuous maps, and $\mathbf{Cat}$ be the category of small categories and functors.
There is a path functor $\mathcal{P}:\mathbf{Top}\to \...
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Constructing a continuous function with a prescribed preimage
Given a topological space $X$ and a Banach space $V$, I wonder for which open sets $U$ it is possible to construct a continuous function $f: X \to V$ such that $f^{-1}[B(0, 1)] = U$ - or maybe there ...
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Intersection of (relativized/preimage) measure 0 with every hyperarithmetic perfect set
Given a perfect tree $T$ on $2^{<\omega}$ viewed as a function from $2^{<\omega}$ to $2^{<\omega}$ define the measure of a subset of $[T]$ to be the measure of it's preimage under the usual ...
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Identifying a curve on a closed surface of genus 4
The notation is the one used in the attached picture.
Take a closed, orientable surface $\Sigma_4$ of genus $4$, obtained as the identification space of a polygon with $16$ sides in the usual way. The ...
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Eigenvalues of random matrices are measurable functions
I have read that if a random matrix is hermitian then its eigenvalues are continuous, hence also measurable.
If the random matrix is not hermitian, the eigenvalues are not continuous in some cases. ...
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Do closed subsets of the generalised Cantor space have an analogue of the perfect set property?
For a regular uncountable cardinal $\kappa$, consider $2^\kappa$ with the "less than box topology" (tree topology? Easton/Bounded support topology?) in which basic open sets are of the form $...
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Generalized Triangle Inequality for Snowflakes
Let $p>0$ and consider a metric space $(X,d)$. I have recently come across a problem where the space $(X,d^q)$ provides is natural; where $q>1$. However, the triangle inquality break (i.e. it ...
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Extreme amenability of topological groups and invariant means
Recently I'm reading the paper Ramsey–Milman phenomenon, Urysohn metric spaces, and extremely amenable groups by Pestov. When it comes to the definition of an extremely amenable topological group, it ...
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Is the Robertson–Seymour theorem equivalent to the compactness of some topological space?
The Robertson–Seymour theorem concerns downwardly closed classes of isomorphism classes of finite undirected graphs. (Am I committing some sin by referring to a class of classes? An isomorphism class ...
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"Maehara-style" proof of Jordan-Schoenflies theorem?
The highest upvoted answer to this old question Nice proof of the Jordan curve theorem? is a proof by Ryuji Maehara. I personally really liked/appreciated that Maehara's proof is
A) a fairly ...
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Determinacy coincidence at $\omega_1$: is CH needed?
This is a follow-up to the last part of an old MSE answer of mine. Briefly, an analogue at $\omega_1$ of Steel's equivalence between clopen and open determinacy can be proved assuming $\mathsf{CH}$, ...
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Is the product of two outer regular Radon measures outer regular?
Everything is nice on second countable spaces: the product of two outer regular Radon measure is still an outer regular Radon measure. But what happens without the assumption of second countability?
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Is every rational sequence topology homeomorphic?
Crossposted from Math.SE 4698387.
In the rational sequence topology, rationals are discrete and irrationals have a local base defined by choosing a Euclidean-converging sequence of rationals and ...
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Under what assumption on a proper map does the preimage of sufficiently small neighborhood is homotopy equivalent to the fiber?
Let $\pi\colon X\rightarrow Y$ be a proper map of topological spaces. Let's assume that both $X$ and $Y$ are paracompact, Hausdorff and locally weakly contractible. Then is it enough to conclude that ...
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What's the unspoken history of compactly generated topological spaces?
Usually, the alleged motivation for the definition of compactly generated topological spaces is Cartesian closedness, which fails for general spaces. Of course, from a contemporary perspective, this ...
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Let $X$ be a finite set of $n$ ($>1$) elements and $\tau$ be a topology on $X$ having exactly $m$ elements. Can we give any description of $m$?
Let $X$ be a finite set of $n$ ($>1$) elements and $\tau$ be a topology on $X$ having exactly $m$ elements.
Can we give any description of $m$ as it relates to $n$?
Obviously $2\le m\le 2^n$ and ...
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Characterization of a "complex" hull?
This is a complex continuation of my previous question. There Iosif Pinelis showed that the so obtained closure from taking the intersection of the preimages of the linear functionals indeed coincides ...
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Simple left earthquakes are dense
i´ve been studying an article from W. P. Thurston about hyperbolic geometry, there, he defines something called left earthquake, whose definition is as follows:
Definition. If $\lambda$ is a geodesic ...
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Recovering a set from its projections in varying coordinate systems - a projection hull?
Let me describe the simplest non-trivial case of what I have in mind. Let $V$ be a 2-dimensional $\mathbb{R}$-vector space and fix an isomorphism $V \cong \mathbb{R}^2$, where $\mathbb{R}^2$ is ...
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Is every weakly $1$-dimensional space embeddable in the plane?
A $1$-dimensional (separable metric) space $X$ is weakly $1$-dimensional if $$\Lambda(X)=\{x\in X:X\text{ is 1-dimensional at }x\}$$
is zero-dimensional (i.e. the space $\Lambda(X)$ has a basis of ...
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"Classifying" causally closed sets in Minkowski space
Let $M = \mathbb R^{D+1}$ be Minkowski space. Recall that the causal complement of a set $A \subseteq M$ is the set $A^\perp \subseteq M$ where $p \in A^\perp$ there is no timelike path between $p$ ...
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Product of locally Borel sets locally Borel
Let $X$ be a locally compact Hausdorff space with a fixed Radon measure (= Borel measure that is finite on compact subsets, inner regular on open subsets and outer regular on Borel sets) $\mu$ . A ...
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Does the pseudo-arc contain Erdős space?
The pseudo-arc is the unique hereditarily indecomposable chainable continuum.
The Lelek fan is the unique compact, connected subset of the Cantor fan (the cone over the Cantor set) with a dense ...
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A generic metric on $X\cup\mathbb Z$
$\newcommand\abs[1]{\lvert#1\rvert}$Let $(X,d_X)$ be a countable metric space such that $X\cap\mathbb Z=\{0\}$.
Problem. Is there a metric $d$ on the union $Y=X\cup\mathbb Z$ such that
$d(x,y)=d_X(x,...
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Hereditarily locally connected spaces
A topological space is locally connected if every point has a neighborhood basis of connected open subsets.
A property of topological spaces is termed hereditary, subspace-hereditary, if every subset ...
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Does a completely metrizable space admit a compatible metric where all intersections of nested closed balls are non-empty?
(cross-posted from this math.SE question)
It is well-known that given a metric space $(X,d)$, the metric is complete if and only if every intersection of nested (i.e. decreasing with respect to ...
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Find at least one square-boxed subcontinuum
Recall that a plane continuum is a closed, bounded,
connected subset of the plane.
It is non-degenerate if it contains at least two points.
(We may sometimes just say "continuum" even if
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Can you remove a zero dimensional subspace from a cube and obtain a planar space?
The question, which came up in a conversation with my advisor Ola Kwiatkowska, is pretty much in the title:
Let $Z\subseteq[0,1]^3$ be zero-dimensional. Is it possible for $[0,1]^3\setminus Z$ to be ...
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Are $\beta \mathbb{Q}$ and $\beta(\beta\mathbb{Q}\setminus\mathbb{Q})$ homeomorphic?
The canonical inclusion $\beta\mathbb{Q}\setminus \mathbb{Q} \hookrightarrow \beta\mathbb{Q}$ is not the Stone-Čech compactification of $\beta\mathbb{Q}\setminus \mathbb{Q}$. Even so, this doesn't ...
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Are there hereditarily square-boxed plane continua?
A plane continuum is a bounded, closed and connected subset of the plane.
A bounding box $B$ for a plane continuum $C$ is
a rectangle $B=[a,b]\times[c,d]$ (including sides and interior)
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Connected space being not locally connected at each point
Say that a topological space $X$ is locally connected at some point $x$, if it has a local base at that point consisting of connected open sets.
Also $X$ is locally connected if it is locally ...
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Equivalence of the definitions of exactness and mixing
Let $f:X \to X$ be a continuous map, where $X$ is a compact metric space. We say that $f$ is (locally) expanding if there are constants $\lambda >1$ and $\delta_0 > 0$ such that, for all $x, y\...
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Is there a two-dimensional unimodal function with fractal level sets
Is there an open simply connected $U\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ and a continuous non-constant function $f: U\to \mathbb{R}$,
such that for all $c\in \mathbb{R}$ both sets
$$ f_{<c}~=~ f^{-1}\left( (-\...
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Is it possible to continuously embed $C^\infty(\mathbb{T}^n)$ as a vector space into $\mathcal{D}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ by some "inverse" of periodization?
Let $\mathbb{T}^n$ be the $n-$dimensional torus and $C^\infty(\mathbb{T}^n)$ be the Frechet space of smooth periodic functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$.
According to p.298 of Folland "Real Analysis"...
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What exactly is the topology on $O_M$ that makes the convolution map $S \times S' \to O_M$ hypocontinuous?
Let $O_M(\mathbb{R}^n):= \mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R}^n) \cap C^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$ be the space of slowly increasing smooth functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$.
Following p.294 proposition 9.10 of the "...
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What is known about sublocales defined by regular nuclei?
(For basic terminology, which is supposed to be standard anyway, see this other question, which inspired this one.)
I am interested in nuclei $j\colon L\to L$ on a frame $L$ which are regular elements ...
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Metric spaces containing a topological disc
It is well-known that every connected, locally connected compact metrizable space $X$ contains an arc, that is, a subspace homeomorphic to $[0,1]$. Are there topological properties we can add to these ...
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Do Grothendieck topoi with enough points satisfy the fan theorem internally?
Fourman and Hylland proved in the 80s that all spatial topoi satisfy the full fan theorem internally, while there are examples of localic topoi that do not satisfy it.
This leads one to conjecture a ...
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When does base-change in topological spaces preserve quotient maps?
The question when $(-) \times X$ preserves colimits in topological spaces is well-studied. Since it always preserves arbitrary coproducts (disjoint unions), one only has to show when it preserves ...
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A characterization of metric spaces, isometric to subspaces of Euclidean spaces
I am looking for the reference to the following (surely known) characterization of metric spaces that embed into $\mathbb R^n$:
Theorem. Let $n$ be positive integer number. A metric space $X$ is ...
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Iterating the dimensional kernel of a metric space
Fix $n\in \mathbb N$. Let $X$ be a separable metric space of (inductive) dimension $n$. Let
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\Lambda(X)&=\{x\in X:X\text{ is $n$-dimensional at }x\}\\ \\
\Lambda^2(X)&=\Lambda(\...
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Can you fit a $G_\delta$ set between these two sets?
Every subset of $\mathbb N \times \mathbb N$ can be viewed as a relation on $\mathbb N$. The set $\mathcal P(\mathbb N \times \mathbb N)$ of all relations on $\mathbb N$ has a natural topology with ...
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What structure is preserved by pseudo-homeomorphisms of pseudo-Euclidean spaces?
Let us recall that for integer numbers $t,s\ge 0$ the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb R^{t,s}$ is the vector space $\mathbb R^{t+s}$ endowed with the quadratic form $q_{t,s}:\mathbb R^{t+s}\to\mathbb ...
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Computing the Heyting operation on the frame of nuclei
(The following definitions are meant to be standard and are reproduced for completeness of the question.) A frame is a partially ordered set in which every finite subset has a greatest lower bound (“...
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The continuity of certain maps on compact Hausdorff spaces
Let $f:M\to Y$ be a continuous proper bijective map from a metrizable space $M$ onto a $T_1$-space $Y$. The properness of $f$ means that for every compact subspace $K\subseteq Y$ the preimage $f^{-1}[...
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How to embed an arbitrary graph into (k,d)-kautz space (like multidimensional scaling of non-normed space)? See details in the following
How to embed an arbitrary graph into (k,d)-kautz space (like multidimensional scaling of non-normed space)? See details in the following.
Given a graph $G = \{V,E\}$,
we have a distance matrix (the ...
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Space with compactly closed diagonal but which is not weak Hausdorff
Using the definitions from Peter May's A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, a topological space $X$ is weak Hausdorff if for every compact Hausdorff space $K$ and continuous function $f:K\to X$, $f(...
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Topological property of an algebraic stack and its presentation
I started to learn algebraic stacks this January. I found there are several properties of algebraic stacks which are defined in terms of their underlying topological spaces, for example, connectedness,...
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Under what conditions is the compact-open topology compactly generated?
Specifically, I'm wondering, if X and Y are Hausdorff, and Y is compactly generated, does it follow that C(X,Y), with the compact-open topology, is compactly generated?
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