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Dimension Theory via Reduced Bisector Chains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ludvik Janos*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762
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Abstract

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Let (X, d) be a metric space and Y and Z subsets of X. We say that Z is a bisector in Y and write Y⊳Z iff Y⊃Z and there are two distinct points y1, y2 ∈ Y such that Z = ={z:d(z, y1) = d(z, y2) and z∈Y}. By a reduced bisector chain in (X, d) of length n we understand a chain X = such that dim Xn≤0 and dimXn-1>0). By r(X, d) we denote the maximum length of reduced bisector chains in (X, d). For a metrizable topological space X we introduce the topological invariant r(X) as the minimum of r(X, d) taken over the set of all metrizations d of X. We prove that the function r(X) coincides with the dimension of X on the class of compact metric spaces.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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