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- From: bula@snoopy (W. Bula)
- Subject: Re: Homeomorphism
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.213452.29088@access.usask.ca>
- Keywords: glitch, bicontinuous, hmmm?
- Sender: bula@snoopy.USask.Ca (Witold D. Bula)
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- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:34:52 GMT
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- In article <_1gmcfj@lynx.unm.edu> weishaup@vesta.unm.edu () writes:
- >I was looking at Gelbaum's book of problems in Analysis (Springer, ~1990),
- >and i found a problem that I don't understand:
- >
- >1.)Show that the set [0,1) is homeomorphic to the Real Line...
- >At first I thought that this was impossible (The real line is open, the inverse
- >image of it under a continuous mapping must also be open), but I found that
- >was not insurmountable (after all, the Real line is also closed), but I don't
- >understand how Gelbaum's Homeomorphism works... He lets
- >
- >f:[0,1) -> R
- >
- >be defined by
- >
- >f(x) = (1/(1-x)) * Sin[1/(1-x)]
- >
- >I don't get this at all... f(x) does not appear to be invertible, so I don't
- >see how it can be a Homeomorphism.
- >
- >An explanation would be welcome for this non-homework problem's answer either
- >thru e-mail or (if the author thinks it merits the attention) through this
- >newsgroup; Alternate Homeomorphisms would also be handy.
- >
- >Thanks,,,,
- >Ben Jones
- >(weishaup@carina.unm.edu
- >)
- > (...deleted...)
-
- I do not know this book, and so maybe someone could tell what the author
- means by a homeomorphism. If we stick to the usual definition
- (i.e. an invertible, onto, continuous, inverse function continuous), then
- obviously, there is NO homeomorphism between the two spaces. The
- simplest reason I can see is that in [0,1), the point 0 does not separate
- the space (i.e. [0,1)\{0} is connected), while there is no point in R
- with the same property.
-
- Regards,
-
- Witold D. Bula
- Dept. of Math. and Stats.
- University of Saskatoon
- Saskatoon, SK
- S7N 0W0
- bula@snoopy.USask.Ca
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