On affine groups admitting invariant two-point sets

Chad, Ben; Suabedissen, Rolf

doi:10.1016/j.topol.2009.05.002

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“…We will choose X α in two steps. First, we will extend P to Q so as to satisfy conditions (1) -(4), and then we will extend Q to X α so as to preserve these properties and to additionally satisfy condition (5).…”

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“…The second motivation for our work is a desire to better understand the structure of two-point sets and to follow a line of research started by Chad and Suabedissen [4,5]. These papers have studied autohomeomorphims of two-point sets, and their main results include the facts that two-point sets may be chosen to be rigid or homogeneous or to have isometry group isomorphic to any subgroup of S 1 of cardinality less than c. These results examine a two-point set by looking for similarity within itself; our results will examine a two-point set by looking for similarity with other distinct types of geometric objects.…”

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Homeomorphisms of two-point sets

Chad

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2011

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.

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Abstract. Given a cardinal κ ≤ c, a subset of the plane is said to be a κ-point set if and only if it meets every line in precisely κ many points. In response to a question of Cobb, we show that for all 2 ≤ κ, λ < c there exists a κ-point set which is homeomorphic to a λ-point set, and further, we also show that it is consistent with ZFC that for all 2 ≤ κ < c, there exists a κ-point set X such that for all 2 ≤ λ < c, X is homeomorphic to a λ-point set. On the other hand, we prove that it is consistent with ZFC that for all 2 ≤ κ, λ < c, there exists a κ-point set, such that for all homeomorphisms f : R 2 → R 2 , if f (X) is a λ-point set, then λ = κ.

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Homeomorphisms of two-point sets

Chad

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2011

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.

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“…In [3], it was shown that any subgroup of S 1 of cardinality less than c is the isometry group of some two-point set and that there exist proper subgroups of S 1 of cardinality c which are the isometry group of some two-point set. In [2], it was shown that there exist proper subgroups of S 1 which are not the isometry group of any two-point set. Given G ≤ S 1 with coset representatives enumerated by g α : α < κ , a two-point set X with isometry group G is of the form α<κ (r α g α G∪s α g α G) for some real-valued sequences r α : α < κ and s α : α < κ .…”

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Set-theoretic constructions of two-point sets

Chad

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Suabedissen³

2009

Fund. Math.

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Abstract. A two-point set is a subset of the plane which meets every line in exactly two points. By working in models of set theory other than ZFC, we demonstrate two new constructions of two-point sets. Our first construction shows that in ZFC + CH there exist two-point sets which are contained within the union of a countable collection of concentric circles. Our second construction shows that in certain models of ZF, we can show the existence of two-point sets without explicitly invoking the Axiom of Choice.1. Introduction. Given a cardinal κ, a subset of the plane is said to be a κ-point set if and only if it meets every line in exactly κ many points and is said to be a partial κ-point set if and only if it meets every line in at most κ many points. We are particularly interested in the case that κ = 2, and we refer to such sets as two-point sets.The existence of two-point sets was first shown by Mazurkiewicz [8]. (A French translation is given in [9].) A two-point set is classically constructed via transfinite recursion, making use of an arbitrary well-ordering of the collection of all lines in the plane. We will demonstrate two constructions of two-point sets which result by varying the use of this well-ordering.The first construction shows that working in ZFC+CH, we can construct a two-point set which is contained in the union of a countable collection of concentric circles of unbounded radius. In general, classical constructions of two-point sets can be thought of as starting with a c-point set and then refining it to a two-point set, and so this construction is of interest because we obtain a two-point set by refining an ℵ 0 -point set. We achieve this development by being careful about the well-ordering of the collection of all lines that we choose to help us in our construction.The second construction shows that in ZF, if we assume that the real line satisfies a certain number of properties, we can construct a two-point set without explicitly invoking the Axiom of Choice. It is a question of Erdős,

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On affine groups admitting invariant two-point sets

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Homeomorphisms of two-point sets

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