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Metrisation of Moore spaces and abstract topological manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

David L. Fearnley
Affiliation:
The Mathematical Institute24–29 St GilesOxford OX1 3LB, England
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Abstract

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The problem of metrising abstract topological spaces constitutes one of the major themes of topology. Since, for each new significant class of topological spaces this question arises, the problem is always current. One of the famous metrisation problems is the Normal Moore Space Conjecture. It is known from relatively recent work that one must add special conditions in order to be able to get affirmative results for this problem. In this paper we establish such special conditions. Since these conditions are characterised by local simplicity and global coherence they are referred to in this paper generically as “abstract topological manifolds.” In particular we establish a generalisation of a classical development of Bing, giving a proof which is complete in itself, not depending on the result or arguments of Bing. In addition we show that the spaces recently developed by Collins designated as “W satisfying open G(N)” are metrisable if they are locally separable and locally connected and regular. Finally, we establish a new necessary and sufficient condition for spaces to be metrisable.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1997

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