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On the connectivity of graph Lipscomb’s space. arXiv:2309.11102

Preprint, arXiv:2309.11102 [math.GN] (2023).
Summary: A central role in topological dimension theory is played by Lipscomb’s space \(J_{A}\) since it is a universal space for metric spaces of weight \(|A|\geq \aleph _{0}\). On the one hand, Lipscomb’s space is the attractor of a possibly infinite iterated function system, i.e. it is a generalized Hutchinson-Barnsley fractal. As, on the other hand, some classical fractal sets are universal spaces, one can conclude that there exists a strong connection between topological dimension theory and fractal set theory. A generalization of Lipscomb’s space, using graphs, has been recently introduced (see R. Miculescu, A. Mihail, Graph Lipscomb’s space is a generalized Hutchinson-Barnsley fractal, Aequat. Math., 96 (2022), 1141-1157). It is denoted by \(J_{A}^{\G}\) and it is called graph Lipscomb’s space associated with the graph \(\G\) on the set \(A\). It turns out that it is a topological copy of a generalized Hutchinson-Barnsley fractal. This paper provides a characterization of those graphs \(\G\) for which \(J_{A}^{\G}\) is connected. In the particular case when \(A\) is finite, some supplementary characterizations are presented.

MSC:

28A80 Fractals
37C70 Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure
54D05 Connected and locally connected spaces (general aspects)
54B15 Quotient spaces, decompositions in general topology
54C25 Embedding
37E25 Dynamical systems involving maps of trees and graphs
05C90 Applications of graph theory
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