Cardinality of inverse limits with upper semicontinuous bonding functions

Authors

  • M. Roskaric University of Maribor
  • N. Tratnik University of Maribor

Keywords:

Continua, Limits, Inverse limits, Cardinality, Upper semicontinuous set valued functions

Abstract

We explore cardinality of generalised inverse limits. Among other things we show that for any n{0,c,1,2,3,} there is an upper semicontinuous function with the inverse limit having exactly n points. We also prove that if f is an upper semicontinuous function whose graph is a continuum, then the cardinality of the corresponding inverse limit is either 1, 0 or c. This generalises the recent result of I. Banic and J. Kennedy, which claims the same is true in the case when the graph is an arc. DOI: 10.1017/S0004972714000689

Published

2014-11-13

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