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2answers
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Importance of separability vs. second-countability
For me second-countability always felt like to be the more important and fundamental concept from general topology than separability. I wonder whether there are any points which ca …
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2answers
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Is there a contractible bounded homogeneous space?
Let us phrase the question in the title in more detail: I wonder if there exists a metric space $X$ which has at least two points, has finite diameter (in the sense that there is a …
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1answer
161 views
Does there exist a space X whose suspension is homotopy equivalent to [0,1] rel ends but where X is not contractible?
As pointed out by David White in
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/73687/when-mapping-cone-is-contractible
there exists an acyclic CW-complex $X$ which is not contractible but who …
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1answer
80 views
Can distinct open knots correspond to the same closed knot?
A topological ("closed") knot is an embedding of a circle in $\mathbb{R}^3$. It's possible for a knot to be distinct from the unknot because there are no free ends to move around a …
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1answer
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The pth power of a distance function is twice continuously differentiable, for $p>2$?
Suppose $\mathcal{O}$ is an open convex connected strict subset in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and define $\beta(x)=dist(x, \mathcal{O})$, for each $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$.
Is $\beta^p$, $p>2$ a tw …
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0answers
17 views
Mixture Spaces with non empty algebraic interior?
I am looking for examples of mixture spaces with non empty algebraic interior where a mixture space satisfies the following properties:
In particular M
is endowed with a mixing …
4
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0answers
77 views
On the cardinality of perfect spaces with the countable chain condition
QUESTION: Does every regular perfect space with the countable chain condition have cardinality bounded above by the continuum? Is this at least true for perfectly normal ccc spa …
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1answer
328 views
Showing a filter with a certain property on the power set of $\mathbb{Z}$ is a one point filter
Let $\mathcal{P}_0(X)$ the Power set of $X$ without the empty set and let $\dot{x}:=\{A\subseteq X: x \in A\}$ the one point filter generated by $x$. Furtermore let $$ \mathcal{A} …
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0answers
47 views
Suppose $(G,\mathcal T)$ is a paratopological group and $a,b\in G$ and every neighborhood of $a$ contains $b$. Can we say every neighborhood of $b$ contains $a$?
Suppose $(G,\mathcal T)$ is a paratopological group and $a,b\in G$ and every neighborhood of $a$ contains $b$. Can we say every neighborhood of $b$ contains $a$?
clearly every …
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0answers
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Restrictions of null/meager ideal
Let I denote the null (resp. meager) ideal on reals. Is it consistent that for any pair of non null (resp. meager) sets A and B, there is a null (resp. meager) preserving bijection …
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Questions about knot (link) of surface in four dimension
Consider three 2-torus ($S^1*S^1$) living in four space. Can I have links of these objects, which is generalization of links of circles in 3D? If so, how can I judge whether three …
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Which topological spaces are coset spaces of locally compact groups?
What is a topological characterization of the class of spaces that have the form $G/H$ for a locally compact, Hausdorff group $G$ and a closed subgroup $H$ ?
Such a space $X=G/H$ …
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2answers
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A conjecture on closed discrete subset
I am struggling with this old problem, which is also posted here:
Let $X$ satisfy countable chain condition(abbreviated as CCC) and $X$ has a regular $G_\delta$-diagonal. Then …
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6answers
891 views
Giving $Top(X,Y)$ an appropriate topology
I am not sure if its OK to ask this question here.
Let $Top$ be the category of topological spaces. Let $X,Y$ be objects in $Top$.
Let $F:\mathbb{I}\rightarrow Top(X,Y)$ be a fu …
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82 views
A question on continuous mappings
The question is also posted here.
Let $M=\mathbb{R}$ and $\tau_M=\lbrace U\cup A: U$ open in $\mathbb{R}, A\subset \mathbb{R} \setminus B\rbrace$, where $B$ is a Bernstein set. Th …

