Daria Michalik: Symmetric products as cones

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 17:15

Room: D1-215

Speaker:
Daria Michalik

Title: Symmetric products as cones

Abstract. (join work with Alejandro Illanes and Veronica Martinez-de-la-Vega)

For a continuum \(X\), let \(F_n(X)\) be the hyperspace of all nonempty subsets of \(X\)with at most \(n\)-points. The space \(F_n(X)\) is called the n'th-symmetric product.

In [1] it was proved that if \(X\)is a cone, then its hyperspace \(F_n(X)\) is also a cone.

During my talk I will discuss the converse problem. I will prove that if \(X\)is a locally connected curve, then the following conditions are equivalent:

  1. \(X\)is a cone,
  2. \(F_n(X)\) is a cone for some \(n\ge 2\),
  3. \(F_n(X)\) is a cone for each \(n\ge 2\).

[1] A. Illanes, V. Martinez-de-la-Vega, Symmetric products as cones, Topology Appl. 228 (2017), 36–46.