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Space of curves
I am reading Burago, Burago & Ivanov's book where they distinguish the notion of a curve and a path in the following way:
a path in a topological space $X$ is simply a (continuous) map from a ...
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Extending the hyperbolic splitting on $\Lambda$ to a neighborhood of $\Lambda$
Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold and let $f:M→M$ a diffeomorphism. Let $\Lambda\subset M$ be a compact invariant subset of $M$. We say that $\Lambda $ is a hyperbolic set for $f$ when there ...
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Symmetric line spaces are homeomorphic to Euclidean spaces
For points $x,y,z$ of a metric space $(X,d)$ we write $\mathbf Mxyz$ and say that $y$ is a midpoint between $x$ and $z$ if $d(x,z)=d(x,y)+d(y,z)$ and $d(x,y)=d(y,z)$.
Definition: A metric space $(X,d)$...
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Co-analytic $Q$-sets
A subset $A\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ is said to be a $Q$-set if every subset $B\subseteq A$ is $F_\sigma$ wrt the subspace topology on $A$. For example $\mathbb{Q}$ is a $Q$-set. The first time I have ...
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First-countable topological monoids without local absorbing elements whose topology is induced by a semimetric
This is a follow up of Question 163246. For the reader's convenience, let me first copy&paste some basic definitions.
We let a semimetric on a set $X$ be a function $d: X \times X \to [0,\infty]$ ...
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What to call a continuous function with preimage preserving nowhere-density?
Currently I am reading some basic literature on descriptive set theory and boolean algebras. And this comes out a lot, for example in results like:
Let $X$ and $Y$ be topological spaces, and $f:X \to ...
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If $(\mathbb M, \tau)$ is a topological monoid, is $\tau$ always induced by a [left] subinvariant semimetric?
Let me start by recalling some basic definitions (just for the sake of avoiding misunderstandings due to the vocabulary of the post).
Basically following some ideas of W. Lawvere (but not his ...
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Retracting to a bigger compact
Consider the topological spaces $X$ with the following property:
For every compact $K\subseteq X$ there is a compact set $L$ such that $K\subseteq L\subseteq X$ and $L$ is a retract of $X$.
Let ...
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Stone-Cech compactification of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and smooth functions
I am currently attending a course where we are now covering the Stone-Cech compactification. Today we proved in some detail that extensions of bounded smooth functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$ to $\beta\...
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Notations for open and closed sets
I am wondering why a standard notation for open sets is $G$ and that for closed sets is $F$. I mean, $F$ precedes $G$ in the alphabet, whereas open sets are usually introduced before closed ones.
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