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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Can 4-space be partitioned into Klein bottles?
It is known that $\mathbb{R}^3$ can be partitioned into disjoint circles,
or into disjoint unit circles, or into congruent copies of a real-analytic curve
(Is it possible to partition $\mathbb R^3$ ...
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The topologies for which a presheaf is a sheaf?
Given a set $S$, let $Top(S)$ denote the partially ordered set (poset) of topologies on $S$, ordered by fineness, so the discrete topology, $Disc(S)$, is maximal.
Suppose that $Q$ is a presheaf on $...
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Subfields of $\mathbb{C}$ isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}$ that have Baire property, without Choice
While sitting through my complex analysis class, beginning with a very low level introduction, the teacher mentioned the obvious subfield of $\mathbb{C}$ isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}$, and I then ...
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Are there "chain complexes" and "homology groups" taking values in pairs of topological spaces?
Throughout this question, notation of the form $(X,A)$ denotes a sufficiently nice pair of topological spaces. I think for most of what I'm saying here, it is enough to assume that the inclusion $A \...
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Are amenable groups topologizable?
I've learned about the notion of topologizability from "On topologizable and non-topologizable groups" by Klyachko, Olshanskii and Osin (http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7895) - a discrete group $G$ is ...
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What algebraic properties are preserved by $\mathbb{N}\leadsto\beta\mathbb{N}$?
Given a binary operation $\star$ on $\mathbb{N}$, we can naturally extend $\star$ to a semicontinuous operation $\widehat{\star}$ on the set $\beta\mathbb{N}$ of ultrafilters on $\mathbb{N}$ as ...
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What is the Cantor-Bendixson rank of the space of first order theories?
Let $L$ be the language $\{R\}$ containing a single binary relation symbol. Consider the space $S_0(L)$ of complete, first-order $L$-theories. This is a seperable, compact Hausdorff space; what is its ...
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The cofinality of $(\mathbb{N}^\kappa,\le)$ for uncountable $\kappa$?
For a partially ordered set $P$, a set $A\subseteq P$ is cofinal if for each element of $P$ there is a larger element in $A$. The cofinality of $P$, ${\rm cof}(P)$, is the minimal cardinality of a ...
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Does there exist a continuous open map from the closed annulus to the closed disk?
(Originally from MSE, but crossposted here upon suggestion from the comments)
In this MSE post, user Moishe Kohan provides an example of a non-continuous open and closed ("clopen") function $...
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What is the strongest nerve lemma?
The most basic nerve lemma can be found as Corollary 4G.3 in Hatcher's Algebraic Topology:
If $\mathcal U$ is an open cover of a paracompact space $X$ such that every nonempty intersection of ...
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Čech functions and the axiom of choice
A Čech closure function on $\omega$ is a function $\varphi:\mathcal P(\omega)\to\mathcal P(\omega)$ such that (i) $X\subseteq\varphi(X)$ for all $X\subseteq\omega$, (ii) $\varphi(\emptyset)=\emptyset$,...
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Characterization of Fréchet-Urysohn spaces using sequential continuity at a point
A map $f \colon X \to Y$ is called sequentially continuous at the point $a$ if for every sequence $(x_n)$ such that $x_n\to a$, we also have $f(x_n)\to f(a)$.
$$x_n\to a \qquad \Rightarrow \qquad f(...
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"Next steps" after TQFT?
(Disclaimer: I'm rather nervous that this isn't appropriate for MathOverflow, but given the contents of my question I don't really know a better place to ask something like this.)
Recently, I've been ...
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Grothendieck dessins d'enfants - current surveys or text you can recommend?
I was recommended this forum to be the leading site for algebraic geometry, so I would like to ask you a question about Grothendieck dessins d´enfants. My background is in maps on surfaces (graph ...
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Is homeomorphism of simplicial complexes semidecidable?
Conventions: $\cong$ is homeomorphism of topological spaces and isomorphism of groups, $\equiv_G$ is the equality of two words over the generators of the group $G$. Simplicial complexes are finite.
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Spaces locally modelled on $L^2(\mathbb R)$
In this recent question, I learned that any two separable Banach spaces are homeomorphic. Based on some readings, I'm guessing that $L^2(\mathbb R)$ is homeomorphic to $\prod_{n=1}^{\infty} (0,1)$ (...
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Is this "Homology" useful to study?
In the usual singular homology of a topological space $X$, one consider the free abelian group generated by all continuous maps from the standard simplex $\Delta^{n}$ to $X$.
Now we can ...
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Covers of $Z^k$
This is a question related to covers of $Z^\infty$. Is it possible to cover $Z^k$, $k>1$, with the $l_1$-metric by a constant (not depending on $k$) number of collections of subsets $U^0,...,U^c$ ...
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Which functions have all the common $\forall\exists$-properties of continuous functions?
This is an attempt at partial progress towards this question. Meanwhile, Sam Sanders pointed out that my original term was already in use, as were a couple other back-up terms, so ... oh well.
For a ...
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Do connected algebraic stacks have a smooth cover by a connected scheme?
An algebraic stack $X$ has an induced topological space $|X|$ given by equivalence classes of fields mapping to $X$ as outlined in the stacks project. If $|X|$ is connected, does that imply there ...
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Cardinality of the set of continuous functions
Suppose $(X,\tau)$ and $(Y,\sigma)$ are topological spaces. Let $F(X,Y)$ be the set of continuous functions $X\rightarrow Y$. I want to compute the cardinality of $F(X,Y)$. It depends not only on ...
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On projectively countable sets in the Hilbert cube
A subset $A$ of a topological space $X$ is called projectively countable if for any continuous map $f:X\to\mathbb R$ the image $f(A)$ is countable.
It is easy to see that each projectively countable ...
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Small cardinals related to topological convergence
Recall that a topological space is called sequential if a set is closed if and only if it contains all limits of convergent sequences lying inside of it. A space $X$ is called Frechet if for every non-...
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Is there a continuous map $f:\mathbb R^\omega\to\mathbb R^\omega$ with dense countable preimage $f^{-1}(\mathbb Q^\omega)$?
Let $\mathbb Q^\omega_0:=\{(x_i)_{i\in\omega}\in\mathbb Q^\omega:\exists n\in\omega\;\forall m\ge n\;\;x_m=0\}$ and observe that $\mathbb Q^\omega_0$ is a countable dense set in $\mathbb R^\omega$ (...
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A meager subgroup of the real line, which cannot be covered by countably many closed subsets of measure zero?
Is there a ZFC-example of a subgroup $H$ of the real line $\mathbb R$ such $H$ is meager, has zero Lebesgue measure, but cannot be covered by countably many closed subsets of measure zero in $\mathbb ...
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Covering number estimates for Hölder balls
Let $\alpha \in (0,1]$, $r>0$ and $L>0$, and positive intwgers $n$ and $m$. The Arzela-Ascoli Theorem guarantees that the set $X(\alpha,L,r)$ of $f:[-1,1]^n\rightarrow [-r,r]^m$ with $\alpha$-...
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Covering image of a connected CW-complex need not be a CW-complex
This question is already asked here MSE, and there is an answer based on some conjecture (probably still open). I am posting the same question for a counterexample (if any, not based on such unsolved ...
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Planar arc on a topologically embedded sphere or disk in $\mathbb{R}^3$
An arc is a set homeomorphic to the unit interval $[0,1]$; an arc in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is planar if it is contained in some plane.
The following questions are motivated by Anton Petrunin's Disc bounded ...
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pizza lemma (topology)
given six real-analytic arcs in the unit disk $D$, each of which
connects the origin to a boundary point, and no two arcs meet anywhere except
at the origin, and the arcs meet at equal (60 degree) ...
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Why must commuting maps (of an interval) without common fixed points have at least 11 fixed points for the composition?
I've been looking at the examples of commuting functions on a closed interval which have no common fixed points. These were discovered in 1967 by William M Boyce and J Philip Huneke.
Earlier work by ...
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Multiplicity of ball covering
Background. My questions are motivated by the following:
A. Conway and Sloane in "On the covering multiplicity of lattices" (Discrete
and Computational Geometry, 8 (1992) 109-130) considered the ...
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Do compact inverse-property loops (or just compact Moufang loops) have bi-invariant Haar measure?
So, the overall question is in the title: Does a compact topological loop with the inverse property have a Haar measure that is simultaneously left and right invariant? (And we can restrict to ...
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Metric completion of an algebraically closed field is algebraically closed?
Let $F$ be a complete metric topological field. Suppose there is a subfield $F_1 \subset F$, algebraically closed and topoolgically dense in $F$. Must $F$ itself be algebraically closed?
We can ...
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Is there a characterization of the class of first-order formulas that are closed in every compact Hausdorff structure?
Fix a relational language $\mathcal{L}$. (I don't think relational really matters that much but I don't want to worry about it.) A topological $\mathcal{L}$-structure is an $\mathcal{L}$-structure $M$ ...
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Topology is to semi-decidability, coarse structures are to what?
There is a folklore correspondence between topology as semi-decidability amongst computer scientists, which is explained in places like:
The monograph Synthetic Topology: of Data Types and Classical ...
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Counter example to lifting contractibility of a topological space
I'm looking for a simple example of an open proper continuous map between topological spaces $\varphi:X\to Y$ such that :
$Y$ is contractible and locally contractible ;
for any $y\in Y$, $\varphi^{-1}...
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A connected Borel subgroup of the plane
It is known that the complex plane $\mathbb C$ contain dense connected (additive) subgroups with dense complement but each dense path-connected subgroup of $\mathbb C$ necessarily coincides with $\...
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Does each compact topological group admit a discontinuous homomorphism to a Polish group?
A compact topological group $G$ is called Van der Waerden if each homomorphism $h:G\to K$ to a compact topological group is continuous. By a classical result of Van der Waerden (1933) the groups $SO(...
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For a Banach space $X$, when is $X$ homeomorphic to $X \setminus A$?
$\mathbb{R}^n\not\cong\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}$ are not homeomorphic is a triviality from Algebraic Topology. On the other hand, if $X$ is an infinite dimensional Banach space, then $X \cong X\...
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L-spaces without convergent sequences
An L-space is a regular hereditarily Lindelof space which is not hereditarily separable. Consistent examples of L-spaces are relatively easy to come by (for example, Suslin Lines), but the first ...
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Do the Laver tables converge to the Sierpinski triangle with a line segment sticking out in the hyperspace topology?
Let $(\{1,...,2^{n}\},*_{n})$ denote the $n$-th Laver table.
Let
$$C_{n}=\{(\frac{x}{2^{n}},\frac{x*_{n}y}{2^{n}})|x,y\in\{1,2,3,...,2^{n}\}\}$$
for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$.
Then since $C_{n}$ is a ...
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Continuous extension of Riemann maps and the Caratheodory-Torhorst Theorem
If $G\subsetneq\mathbb{C}$ is a simply-connected plane domain, then by the Riemann mapping theorem there is a conformal isomorphism $\newcommand{\D}{\mathbb{D}}\varphi:\D\to G$, where $\D$ is the unit ...
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Linearly Lindelöf spaces with Lindelöf degree of uncountable cofinality
A space is linearly Lindelöf iff every open cover $C$ has a subcover $S$ with $\operatorname{cf} (|S|)= \aleph_{0}$.
Question. Is there a linearly Lindelöf space $X$ with
$\operatorname{cf} (L(X))...
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3 manifolds with diffeomorphic unit tangent bundles
What can one say about two closed oriented 3-manifolds $M_1$ and $M_2$ such that $S^2 \times M_1$ is diffeomorphic to $S^2 \times M_2$?
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Paracompact Hausdorff but not compactly generated?
I'm sorry to be asking a (possibly) elementary question, but I've run into a problem in point-set topology; I've just read that there exists paracompact Hausdoff spaces which are not compactly ...
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What is known about differentiable and analytic structures on the long line (and half-line)?
When reading about this question which recently became active for some reason, I wanted to make a comment, as a warning regarding non-metrizable manifolds, to the effect that the every $C^\infty$ ...
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Is every Baire metric space a complete metric space in disguise?
I am currently giving lectures in real analysis and a student asked an interesting question I couldn't answer, so I'm posting it here:
Let's say that a metric space $X$ is Baire if every countable ...
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Does any real function have a Lipschitzian restriction on $D$?
Does any real function have a Lipschitzian restriction on $D$, where $D$ is an infinite subset of $\Bbb R$ with an accumulation point?
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Embedding of regular spaces in countably compact Hausdorff spaces
It is well-known that each completely regular space embeds into a compact Hausdorff space.
Problem. Is it true that each regular space embeds into a countably compact Hausdorff space?
The problem ...
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If an additive group of $\Bbb R^2$ contains a smoothly deformed circle, is it necessarily all of $\Bbb R^2$?
It can be shown that if an additive subgroup of $\Bbb R^2$ contains the unit circle, then it is necessarily all of $\Bbb R^2$. Does this also hold for a suitably smoothly deformed unit circle?
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