Hereditary indecomposability and the Intermediate Value Theorem

2000/02/16 by Alan Dow, Klaas Pieter Hart
Mathematics · #math.GN #msc:54C30 #msc:54F15 #msc:54G05

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published as Houston Journal of Mathematics, 27, No.2 (2001), 431-438 · 6 pages, final version

arxiv created 2000/02/16 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We show that hereditarily indecomposable spaces can be characterized by a special instance of the Intermediate Value Theorem in their rings of continuous functions.

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