On Raymond-Williams' example

2019/09/27 by Levin, Michael
#22C05 (54F45) #55M10 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1909.12660

Abstract

Raymond and Wiliams in "Examples of p-adic transformation groups", Ann. of Math. (2) 78 (1963) 92-106, constructed an action of the p-adic integers on an n-dimensional compactum, n>1, with the orbit space of dimension n+2. We present a simpler construction of such an example.

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