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Trait Suggestion: Closed Topologist's Sine Curve S114 has Fixed point property P89

Open Moniker1998 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Trait Suggestion

The space Closed Topologist's Sine Curve S114 has Fixed point property P89, but those facts are not known to pi-Base today: link to pi-Base

Proof/References

Let $X$ be space S114 and $C = \{(x, \sin(1/x)) : x\in (0, 1]\}\subseteq X$ and $D = X\setminus C$. Since image of a path-connected set is path-connected, $f(C)$ and $f(D)$ need to be contained in $C$ or $D$.

If $f(D)$ is contained in $D$, then since $D\cong [0, 1]$ has fixed point property, $f$ has a fixed point in $D$. If $f(C)$ is contained in $D$, then since $C$ is dense in $X$ and $D$ is closed, $f(D)$ is contained in $D$, so again $f$ has a fixed point in $D$. Lastly, if both $f(C)$ and $f(D)$ are contained in $C$, then $f(X)$ is contained in $C$, and $X$ being a connected compact set, $f(X) = I\subseteq C \cong (0, 1]$ is homeomorphic to a compact interval or a singleton, and so has the fixed point property. It follows that $f$ has a fixed point in $I$. In any case, $f$ has a fixed point, and so $X$ has the fixed point property.

Moniker1998 avatar Dec 06 '24 22:12 Moniker1998

This is already known, in Infinite-dimensional topology of function spaces by van Mill it exists as exercise A.12.10. I don't really know a good reference, but its probably there somewhere. Either way, the proof is simple.

Moniker1998 avatar Dec 06 '24 22:12 Moniker1998

In pibase now.

felixpernegger avatar Nov 15 '25 14:11 felixpernegger

@felixpernegger thanks

Speaking of, https://topology.pi-base.org/spaces/S000115/properties/P000089 It's unknown if extended topologist sine curve has this property

Moniker1998 avatar Nov 16 '25 07:11 Moniker1998

Speaking of, https://topology.pi-base.org/spaces/S000115/properties/P000089 It's unknown if extended topologist sine curve has this property

Yeah this is in my PR

felixpernegger avatar Nov 16 '25 08:11 felixpernegger