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Compact set covered by two opens
The following lemma about locally compact (but not necessarily Hausdorff) spaces or continuous lattices appears frequently but without citation. It is easy to prove but important in proofs.
If a ...
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Sufficient criteria for $X \subset \mathcal{H}$ to be a Lipschitz (or unif. cont.) retract of $\mathcal{H}$
I am interested in sufficient criteria which ensure that a subset $X$ of a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ is a Lipschitz (or at least uniformly continuous) retract of $\mathcal{H}$.
Under which ...
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A generalized diagonal?
A simple question. Let $ f:X\to Y $ be a function and let $ E_f:=\{(x, y): f (x)=f (y)\}\subset X\times X $. What is the name of the set $ E(f) $? It would be nice to have some reference also. It ...
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Original proof of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem
I am looking for the original proof by Borsuk of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem. I would appreciate very much if someone could outline the proof.
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Is the generalized Baire space complete?
I want to see whether the fact that the Baire space $\omega^\omega$ is a complete (metrizable) space generalizes to $\kappa^\kappa$ being a complete (topological) space. I think this is an easy ...
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Product topology from two premetric spaces induced by sum of premetrics?
For metric spaces $(M_1, d_1)$ and $(M_2, d_2)$, it is an exercise that the product topology on $M_1\times M_2$ is induced by the metric $d((x_1, y_1), (x_2, y_2)) =d_1(x_1, x_2) + d_2(y_1, y_2)$.
Do ...
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Partitions of unity in constructive mathematics
Can someone point me to any substitutes for the partition of unity in Bishop's constructive mathematics?
In particular, under what circumstances can we construct a partition of unity subordinate to ...
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Which necklaces require maximal cuts?
Given an unclasped necklace with $d$ types of beads and $p$ people it is well known we can fairly divide the necklace with at most $d(p-1)$ cuts. A fair division means that each person is given the ...
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Is there a concept of uniform Hausdorff dimension?
Let $M$ be a metric space and let $U \subset M$ be open. Then the Hausdorff dimension of $U$ is defined in the usual way. If there is a single dimension number $d$ that is the Hausdorff dimension of ...
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Reference or counter-example for Closed Graph Theorem for multivalued maps in general topological spaces
Could someone be so kind to point me in the direction of a citeable proof of the following version of the Closed Graph Theorem? (i.e. assuming this is true, could someone give me a literature ...
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Cofibrations and mapping spaces in compactly generated weak Hausdorff spaces
Assume that $X$ and $Y$ are compactly generated weak Hausdorff spaces (CGWH spaces for short). Assume that they are also well-pointed (so the inclusions of the base points are Hurewicz cofibrations).
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The homological negligibility of certain subsets in compact manifolds
Let $n\ge 3$ and $X$ be a compact connected $n$-manifold (without boundary).
I need a reference to the following facts (which I believe are true at least in dimension $n=3$):
Fact 1. For every ...
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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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Functoriality of Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence - Reference Request
I'm interested in a text book reference on the functoriality of the Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence. The only reference I found are these lecture notes by Kupers (link should lead to the target ...
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In the category of uniform spaces, is the completion of a quotient map also a quotient map?
I asked this question about 2 months ago on math.stackexchange, but so far I received neither comments nor answers.
Let $X$ and $Y$ be two Hausdorff uniform spaces. A surjective uniformly continuous ...
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the validity of a basic statement involving the Hausdorff distance
Let $\Omega_1 \supset \Omega_2 \supset \cdots$ be a sequence of nonempty, open, bounded and convex sets in $R^n.$
Define $\Omega = \operatorname{int} \Bigl( \overline{\bigcap_{k=1}^{\infty} \Omega_k }...
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Consistency of the Hurewicz dichotomy property
Just to fix the environment, let's work in the Baire space $\omega^\omega$, the space of infinite sequences of natural numbers with the product of the discrete topology over $\omega$. We say that a ...
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Reference request: large generalized probability measures
I'm interested in references relevant to the following: what is the right generalization, if there is one, of a probability measure that takes on values in an structure of more than continuum size?
I'...
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Idempotent relations on the unit square with closed graphs
A colleague and I are interested in idempotent relations from $I=[0,1]$ to $I$ - relations such that $R\circ R(x)=R(x)$ for all $x\in I$. Specifically, the graphs of the relations we care about must ...
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Is there a notion of "locally flat" for CW complexes?
A submanifold $X^n\subset Y^m$ is locally flat if each point $x\in X$ has a neighborhood $U\subset Y$ so that $(U,U\cap X)\simeq (\Bbb R^m, \Bbb R^n)$ with the standard embedding $\Bbb R^n\...
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Reference request for a theorem of Jaworowski
Jan Jaworowski, in 2000, proved the following theorem (I came to know about it from here)
Jaworowski (2000) : Let $Y$ be a finite simplicial complex of dimension $k$ and let $n\ge 2k$. If $f:S^n\to Y$...
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When $X$ is homeomorphic to $\mathscr{F}[X]$?
While I was talking to some colleagues, one of them said that there exists a topological space $X$ such that $X$ is uncountable, non-discrete and homeomorphic to $\mathscr{F}[X]$ (the Pixley-Roy ...
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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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In how far does the Whitney trick work in the piecewise linear setting in $\Bbb R^4$?
I usually read about the Whitney trick in the context of smooth manifolds, but I wonder in how far it works in the piecewise linear (PL) category as well. I have a specific setting in mind that I will ...
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Consistency of a strange (choice-wise) set of reals, pt. 2
This is a follow-up on this question. Consider a set $X\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ such that
$X$ is not separable wrt its subspace topology
Every countable family of non-empty pairwise disjoint subsets of $...
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Separable metrizable spaces far from being completely metrizable
I came across a kind of separable metrizable space that is "far" from being completely metrizable. Before specifying what I mean with "far", I recall that a space is said to be ...
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are trivial fibrations of finite CW-complexes soft for normal maps?
Are trivial Hurewicz fibrations of finite CW-complexes soft for normal maps,
i.e. is it true that for any trivial Hurewicz fibration $f:Y_1\to Y_2$
and a closed subset $A$ of a hereditary normal space ...
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Are there any major differences in metric topologies and "non-symmetric" metric topologies
Let $X$ be a set and let $d:X\times X\rightarrow [0,\infty)$ satisfy all the axioms of a metric besides symmetry (i.e.: $d$ is a quasi-metric). Define a topology $\tau_{d:+}$ on $X$ induced by $d$ as ...
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Sierpinski's characterization of $F_{\sigma\delta}$ spaces
According to [2]: Let $X$ be a space. We call a system $(X_s)_{s\in T}$ a Sierpinski
stratification of $X$ if $T$ is a nonempty tree over a countable alphabet and $X_s$ is a closed subset of $X$ for ...
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Borel selections of usco maps on metrizable compacta
The problem posed below is motivated by this problem of Chris Heunen and in fact is its reformulation in the language of usco maps. Let us recal that an usco map is an upper semicontinuous compact-...
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Counting loops in degree: 1 or 2?
Here's what seems to be an annoying technicality when dealing with loops in graphs.
In the literature on expander graphs (and surely not only), it seems to be the convention that a loop at vertex $v$ ...
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Topology on the space of Borel measures
Let $ B $ be the set of all measures $ \phi $ of $ \mathbf{R}^{n} $ such that every open set is $ \phi $-measurable (sometimes these measures are called Borel measures). Note the measures in $ B $ are ...
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Approximation of continuous functions by Lipschitz functions in the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets
I was involved into this subject when I answered
this
question from MSE. Trying to generalize my answer, I am thinking about a following
Question. Let $X$ and $Y$ be metric spaces. When each ...
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"monotone" homotopy?
This is a question about a concept that I call "monotone homotopy" which arises in a natural way in some topological situations.
Let $X$ be a (bounded) metric space, $Y$ be a topological space and $A\...
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For every sequence of nonempty open sets there is a disjoint sequence of nonempty open sets "below" it
I am looking for any information about the following property for a compact Hausdorff space
$K$: For any sequence $\left(U_{n}\right)$ of nonempty open sets (not necessarily distinct) there is a ...
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Is there a compact connected Hausdorff space in which every non-empty $G_\delta$ set has non-empty interior?
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Is there a compact connected Hausdorff space (with at least two points) in which every non-empty $G_\delta$ set has non-empty interior? (Without the requirement for connectedness, every finite $...
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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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product spaces of rationals
Let $Q$ follow subspace topology from $R$
Then I think it is true that $Q^n$ and $Q^m$ (with product topology) are not homeomorphic.I also think it will be possible to define "rational" homotopy ...
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Stone topological Boolean algebras
I am looking for an initial reference for a theorem which is known, namely:
Theorem: A Boolean algebra $A$ admits a Stone space topology (i.e. is the underlying algebra of a Stone topological ...
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Finite non-Hausdorff models of CW-complexes
Years ago, my advisor showed me a construction where you take a CW complex and quotient each open cell to a single point. He said that under certain conditions (I believe always satisfied by the ...
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Is the Fortissimo space on discrete $\omega_1$ radial?
Let $\omega_1$ have the discrete topology. Its Fortissimo space is $X=\omega_1\cup\{\infty\}$ where neighborhoods of $\infty$ are co-countable.
A space is radial provided for every subset $A$ and ...
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Relative compactness in topological spaces (reference request)
Motivation and context: For a subset $S$ of a metric space $(M,d)$, the following are two very classical compactness results in Analysis:
1a) The set $S$ is compact if and only if each sequence in $S$...
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A pair of spaces equivalent to a pair of CW-complexes
Suppose that $X$ is a CW-complex and $Y$ a CW-subcomplex of $X$. Let $A$ be a closed subspace of $Z$ such that
$Z-A$ is homeomorhic to $X-Y$ and
$Z/A$ homeomorphic to $X/Y$ and
The closure of $Z-A$ ...
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Existence of a discrete subset
Let $X$ be a topological space. $Y$ is a discrete subset of $X$ if it has a discrete topology induced by the topology of $X$. This is equivalent to the fact that for every $y\in Y$ there is an open $U\...
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perfect space without convergent long sequences
Is there a boolean space $X$ without isolated points with the property that no point $x\in X$ is the limit of a long sequence $(x_i)_{i\in I}$ from $X\setminus \lbrace x\rbrace $ ('long sequence' here ...
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Topological characterisations of properties of posets
Finite connected partially ordered sets are in bijective correspondence to connected finite topological spaces that satisfy T_0, see for example the Wikipedia article Finite topological space. Here ...
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Specific criterion for the sum of two closed sets to be closed
Let $Y$ and $Z$ be two closed subspaces of a Banach space $X$ with $Y\cap Z=\{0\}$.
I know that $Y+Z$ is a closed subspace of $X$ $\iff \exists \alpha > 0:\quad \lVert y\rVert \le \alpha\lVert y+z\...
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A question on preimage of a locally injective meromorphic function
Let $f: \mathbb{C} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ be a meromorphic function such that $f'(z) \ne 0$ for all $z \in \mathbb{C}$. Let $\Gamma \subset \mathbb{C}$ be a curve which has no self intersections. If ...
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Topology on set of "real lower bounds"
Specific question: Is there a name for the "topology of real lower bounds"? This is the order topology for the ordering $\supseteq$ on the set
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\mathbb{LB} = \bigl\{ [t, \infty) \mid t \...
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What is this property of surjective continuous maps called?
Let $f\colon X\to Y$ be a continuous map between topological spaces, which you can assume to be Hausdorff if you like. Say that $f$ has property $P$ if for every compact subset $L\subseteq Y$, there ...
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