2025/04/09 by Banič, Iztok, Erceg, Goran, Jelić, Ivan +2
#54F15 #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.07267
A fan is an arcwise-connected continuum, which is hereditarily unicoherent and has exactly one ramification point. Many of the known examples of fans were constructed as 1-dimensional continua that are unions of arcs which intersect in exactly one point. Borsuk proved in 1954 that each fan is a 1-dimensional continuum which is the union of arcs intersecting in exactly one point. But it is not yet known if this property is equivalent to being a fan. In this paper, we show that under two additional assumptions, every such union of arcs is a fan.