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Is there a name for this topology?
Let $X$ be a set and let $f: X\longrightarrow X$ be a function on $X$. Introduce a topology on $X$ by the following basis of open sets: for any subset $S$ of $X$, let $B_S$ be the set of forward ...
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Is the Fell-Doran problem trivial in a topological setting?
The Fell-Doran problem is a problem in functional analysis. It goes as follows: Let $A$ be a complex unital algebra, $X$ a locally convex space, and $L(X)$ the algebra of all continuous endomorphisms ...
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Is there a use for a Hilbert space that uses a different norm than the one induced by the inner product?
$l_1$ minimization / compressed sensing comes to mind. Does anyone have any concrete examples? Or is such a construct completely useless?
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Are mapping spaces paracompact?
Let X be a (finite dimensional) manifold. Consider smooth mapping space $$PX = C^\infty(I, X)$$ where I = [0,1] is the closed interval. Is this space paracompact? What if we fix a point x in X and ...
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Is there a coalgebraic characterisation of the hyperfinite II_1 factor?
Peter Freyd showed that the real interval [0, 1] is a final coalgebra for a functor on sets equipped with two points, which sends such a set to the 'wedge' of two copies of itself, identifying the ...
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Boundary of planar region
Is there a necessary and sufficient condition for the boundary of a planar region to be a finite union of Jordan curves?
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Neglect of Compact Quantum Metric Spaces [closed]
Does anyone have an opinion on Rieffel's theory of compact quantum metric spaces? To me it seems to be a very interesting new area of mathematics. It shows how to generalise complicated geometric ...
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Stable presentable categories as module categories
There is a theorem of Schwede and Shipley which classifies categories of modules over an A∞ ring spectrum as those stable presentable (∞,1)-categories with a compact generator. Suppose I ...
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properly interpreting Pi_0 in the homotopy exact sequence
Define the lens space L(m,n) as the quotient of S2m+1 by the action of the cyclic group ℤn⊂S1⊂ℂ*. We can create the infinite lens space L(∞,n) by a telescoping construction ...
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Has anyone studied the applications which map open sets to either open or closed sets?
Consider two topological spaces X,Y and a function f from X to Y.
Are the following concepts already in use? How are they called?
1) f sends open subsets of X to either open or closed subsets of Y.
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Computations in Knot Homology Theories
1) Relative to one another, how computable are the various knot homology theories? For example, how many crossings can we allow a knot and still hope to compute its Khovanov homology, versus its knot ...
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Is a map that is locally fiberwise equivalent to a product a Hurewicz fibration?
The following is a result I feel like I've seen some form of before, but can't figure out how to prove or find a reference for. Suppose you have a map p:E \to B, with B paracompact, and suppose that ...
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Something like Yoneda's lemma
This is inspired by The Whitehead for maps question.
Consider two maps f, g: X\to Y which happen to induce the same maps (of discrete spaces) ...
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opposite Banach space
I heard this from Haskell Rosenthal many years ago.
If V is a complex vector space, say the opposite of V is the complex vector space with the same elements, the same operations except switch scalar ...
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Making an l_2 distance out of l_1 distance
If we think of the l1 distance as a grid-distance between points, then we can think of l2 distance as what we get when we "shortcut" the grid by going "inside" a cell.
Making the grid finer doesn't ...
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Equivalence of boundedness and total boundedness
Compact subspaces of metric spaces are totally bounded. In some spaces, however, this is equivalent to just being bounded. This (supposedly) holds in finite dimensional Banach spaces.
Can we ...
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Hilbert Space as direct sum of subspaces with cyclic vectors
Ok,so this should be easy, however I havent taken functional analysis for a while. But given a compact self-adjoint operator on a hilbert space H(over the complex numbers), we define v to be a cyclic ...
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Convergence of Affine Transformations
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could point me to any sources regarding the convergence of iterated affine transformation, i.e. sequences where {a_n} is a set of affine transforms and the sequence:
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Homotopy type of stabilizers
Let X be a contractible metric space and G a topological group acting transitively on X (i.e. given any two points x,y \in X, there exists g \in G such that gx=y).
My question is the following: is it ...
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Range of a Certain Linear Operator
Consider the following hermitian form on the sobolev space H^1(I), of an interval I:
g(u,v):= \int_I (du/dt dv/dt - \rho(t) u v)dt, where \rho is a nice bounded function on I.
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Universal covers of domains in complex projective space
The Uniformization Theorem states that the universal cover of a Riemann surface is biholomorphic to the extended complex plane, the complex plane or the open unit disk. Each of these three is a domain ...
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cardinality of final coalgebras in Top
Let P be a polynomial functor from Top to Top, by which I mean a functor of the form P(X) = ∐i ≥ 0 Si × Xi where the Si are finite sets, all but finitely many of which are empty. ...
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What is an example of a topological space that is not homotopy equivalent to a CW-complex?
It would also be nice if someone can explain this comment appearing on the Wikipedia page on CW-complexes:
"The homotopy category of CW complexes is, in the opinion of some experts, the best if not ...
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Legendrian homotopy of curves in a contact structure?
I'm aware of the great body of work on Legendrian knot theory in contact geometry, but suppose I'm curious just about homotopy and not isotopy. How does one understand the space of Legendrian loops ...
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