Alexandroff Manifolds and Homogeneous Continua

Certain Homogeneous Unicoherent Indecomposable Continua

A simple closed curve is the simplest example of a compact, nondegenerate, homogeneous continuum. If a bounded, nondegenerate, homogeneous plane continuum has any local connectedness property, even of the weakest sort, it is known to be a simple closed curve [l, 2, 3].1 The recent discovery of a bounded, nondegenerate, homogenous plane continuum which does not separate the plane [4, 5] has give...

Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Manifolds

All metaLindelöf, and most countably paracompact, homogeneous manifolds are Hausdorff. Metacompact manifolds are never rigid. Every countable group can be realized as the group of autohomeomorphisms of a Lindelöf manifold. There is a rigid foliation of the plane.

SOME THEOREMS ON n-HOMOGENEOUS CONTINUA

A Complete Classification of Homogeneous Plane Continua

We show that the only compact and connected subsets (i.e. continua) X of the plane R2 which contain more than one point and are homogeneous, in the sense that the group of homeomorphisms of X acts transitively on X, are, up to homeomorphism, the circle S1, the pseudo-arc, and the circle of pseudo-arcs. These latter two spaces are fractal-like objects which do not contain any arcs. It follows th...

Locally Homogeneous Geometric Manifolds

Motivated by Felix Klein’s notion that geometry is governed by its group of symmetry transformations, Charles Ehresmann initiated the study of geometric structures on topological spaces locally modeled on a homogeneous space of a Lie group. These locally homogeneous spaces later formed the context of Thurston’s 3-dimensional geometrization program. The basic problem is for a given topology Σ an...