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Janusz R. Prajs
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The terminal hyperspace of homogeneous continua
2010
Abstract We investigate the structure of the collection of terminal subcontinua in homogeneous continua. The main result is a reduction of this structure to six specific types. Three of these types are of one-dimensional spaces, and examples representing these types are known. It is not known whether higher dimensional examples having non-trivial terminal subcontinua and representing the three remaining types exist.
Filament sets and homogeneous continua
2007
Abstract New tools are introduced for the study of homogeneous continua. The subcontinua of a given continuum are classified into three types: filament , non-filament , and ample , with ample being a subcategory of non-filament. The richness of the collection of ample subcontinua of a homogeneous continuum reflects where the space lies in the gradation from being locally connected at one extreme to indecomposable at another. Applications are given to the general theory of homogeneous continua and their hyperspaces.
On continua whose hyperspace of subcontinua is σ-locally connected
1999
Abstract We provide a structural characterization of all continua X whose hyperspace C ( X ) of all subcontinua is the countable union of Peano continua. Applying this result we prove that there exists a uniformly path connected continuum X with no continuous mapping from C ( X ) onto X.
A continuous circle of pseudo-arcs filling up the annulus
1999
We prove an early announcement by Knaster on a decomposition of the plane. Then we establish an announcement by Anderson saying that the plane annulus admits a continlous decomposition into pseudo-arcs such that the quotient space is a simple closed curve. This provides a new plane curve, "a selectible circle of pseudo-aics", and answers some questions of Lewis.
InternallyK-like spaces and internal inverse limits
2014
Abstract We establish equivalences between compacta that admit mappings that limit to the identity, and compacta that are inverse limits of the images under these maps. Our results have relationships to Mardesic and Segalʼs equivalence between polyhedra-like compacta and inverse limits of polyhedra, to the Anderson–Choquet Embedding Theorem, to approximative absolute neighborhood retracts, and to continua that are approximated from within as defined by C.A. Eberhart and J.B. Fugate.
A non-g-contractible uniformly path connected continuum
1999
Abstract An example of a uniformly path connected, plane continuum P is constructed and proved to admit no continuous surjection onto P homotopic to the constant map. This answers a question of D.P. Bellamy in the negative.
On continua comparable with all continua
1999
Abstract A collection of continua is described such that each continuum either is incomparable with some element of the collection, or it is a continuous image of the harmonic fan. As a consequence, a characterization of continua comparable with all continua is obtained.
Filament sets and decompositions of homogeneous continua
2007
Abstract This paper applies the concepts introduced in the article: Filament sets and homogeneous continua [J.R. Prajs, K. Whittington, Filament sets and homogeneous continua, Topology Appl. 154 (8) (2007) 1581–1591, doi:10.1016/j.topol.2006.12.005 ] to decompositions of homogeneous continua. Several new or strengthened results on aposyndesis are given. Newly defined decompositions are discussed. A proposed classification scheme for homogeneous continua is shown to be mostly invariant under Jones' aposyndetic decomposition.
Pseudo-path connected homogeneous continua
2015
Abstract The main result of this paper states that every homogeneous pseudo-path connected continuum is weakly chainable, or equivalently, every homogeneous continuum connected by continuous images of the pseudo-arc is itself a continuous image of the pseudo-arc. We notice that even though there exist homogeneous path connected continua that are not continuous images of an arc (Prajs, 2002), they all are continuous images of the pseudo-arc.
On complete metric spaces containing the Sierpinski curve
1998
It is proved that a complete metric space topologically contains the Sierpiński universal plane curve if and only if it has a subset with so-called bypass property, i.e. it has a subset K K containing an arc such that for each a ∈ K a\in K and for each open arc A ⊂ K A\subset K with a ∈ A a\in A , there exists an arbitrary small arc in K ∖ { a } K\setminus \{a\} joining the two components of A ∖ { a } A\setminus \{a\} .
Internal inverse limits and retractions
2015
We establish equivalences between compacta that admit a sequence of retractions that converge uniformly to the identity map and compacta that are inverse limits on subcompacta with retractions for bonding maps. We give partial answers to questions of Charatonik and Prajs, and of Krasinkiewicz. Our results are related to and use results from another paper of the authors \cite{mp}.
Isometrically Homogeneous and Topologically Homogeneous Continua
2016
Based on the past study of homogeneous continua, this paper concludes that compact connected metric topological groups and isometrically homogeneous continua fall into the following three mutually disjoint classes: (1) indecomposable; (2) aposyndetic and semi-indecomposable; (3) mutually aposyndetic. Among all continua these are special classes with members having extremal properties. Indecomposable isometrically homogeneous continua are characterized as solenoids, and one-dimensional isometrically homogeneous continua are characterized as solenoids or circles. It is shown that path connected isometrically homogeneous continua are locally connected.