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Space Property Suggestion: The Hilbert Cube is homogeneous

Open konradvoelkel opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

(not sure if this is a "theorem" in the same way as the properties=>properties theorems)

Theorem Suggestion

The Hilbert Cube S32 is homogeneous P86.

Proof/References

The result is nontrivial and most proofs don't generalize well to properties=>properties theorems. Also, any way to prove a more general statement for infinite-dimensional compact convex subsets of \ell^2 are useless, as these are all homeomorphic to the Hilbert Cube anyway.

There is a nice discussion on MSE and in particular a link to the elementary proof The Homogeneous Property of the Hilbert Cube, by Denise M. Halverson, David G. Wright, 2012.

konradvoelkel avatar Sep 11 '24 08:09 konradvoelkel

Great suggestion; I've been meaning to add this for a while since it would give an example of a nontrivial homogeneous space with the fixed point property. (The real projective plane would be another nice one to add, but that's worthy of a separate issue.)

danflapjax avatar Sep 11 '24 18:09 danflapjax

Resolved by #862

danflapjax avatar Nov 10 '24 19:11 danflapjax