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Countable connected spaces and bunches of arcs in R3

2006

Abstract We investigate the images (also called quotients) of countable connected bunches of arcs in R 3 , obtained by shrinking the arcs to points (see Section 2 for definitions of new terms). First, we give an intrinsic description of such images among T 1 -spaces: they are precisely countable and weakly first countable spaces. Moreover, an image is first countable if and only if it can be represented as a quotient of another bunch with its projection hereditarily quotient (Theorem 2.7). Applying this result we see, for instance, that two classical countable connected T 2 -spaces—the Bing space [R.H. Bing, A connected countable Hausdorff space, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1953) 474], and th…