Confluent projections and connectedness of inverse limits
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Confluent projections and connectedness of inverse limits
zbMATH Open document ID: 1476.54038
author: Włodzimierz J. Charatonik
author: Daria Michalik
published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2021-09-10T00:00:00Z
review text: Inverse limits of continua, with single-valued mappings, are always connected. This is not the case when set-valued upper semi-continuous functions \(f_{n}:X_{n+1}\rightarrow 2^{X_{n+1}}\) are taken. Several authors have given conditions on the functions \(f_{n}\) in order that the inverse limit results connected. In this direction, \textit{V. Nall} [Topol. Proc. 40, 167--177 (2012; Zbl 1261.54023)] considered set-valued functions \(f\) with the following properties: \begin{itemize} \item[(a)] the graph of \(f\) is compact and connected, \item[(b)] the graph of \(f\) is the union of a family of graphs of set-functions with connected images. \end{itemize} Then he proved that if \(X\) is the inverse limit taking the same set-valued function (\(f_{n}=f\) for every \(n\)), where \(f\) is a set-function satisfying (a) and (b), then \(X\) is connected. In the paper under review the authors study set-functions satisfying condition (b) and other related conditions. For example, they prove that if \(f\) satisfies condition (b), then the projection from the graph of \(f\) onto the domain is confluent and that for arcwise connected continua the converse implication is also true. The authors also show that Nall's theorem also holds when each \(f_{n}\) is onto, satisfies (a) and (b) and they are not necessarily equal. They finish the paper by asking whether in this result it is possible to change the condition (b) by the assumption of the confluence of projections from the graph of \(f_{n}\) onto \(X_{n}\).
reviewed by: Alejandro Illanes
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54F17
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54F15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54C60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54E45
zbMATH DE Number: 7393828
zbMATH Keywords: confluent
zbMATH Keywords: connected
zbMATH Keywords: inverse limit
zbMATH Keywords: multi-valued function
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7393828