Monotone and open mappings on manifolds. I
Monotone and open mappings on manifolds. I
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流形上的单调和开放映射。
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-1975-0375326-0
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发表时间:
1975
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
J. Walsh
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作者:
J. Walsh
Sufficient conditions are given for the existence of open mappings from a p. 1. manifold Mm, m > 3, onto a polyhedron Q. In addition, it is shown that a mapping / from MTM, m > 3, to Q is homotopic to a monotone mapping of M onto Q iff ft : irx(M) —► irx(Q) is onto. Finally, it is shown that a monotone mapping of MTM, m > 3, onto Q can be approximated by a monotone open mapping of M onto Q. In a recent paper [19], D. Wilson constructs monotone open mappings of any compact, connected p.l. manifold MTM, m > 3, onto any cell. In addition, he constructs light open mappings of three dimensional manifolds onto n cells for zz > 3. The question of the existence of such mappings appears in a list of 45 problems compiled by Eilenberg in 1949 in [3]. He asks whether there is an open mapping of a manifold onto a space of higher dimension and whether there is a light open mapping of a manifold with each point inverse a Cantor set. The answer to the first question was given by R. D. Anderson in [1] where he announced the existence of monotone open mappings of any p.l. manifold MTM, m>3, onto any cell; however, he never published a proof. Results similar to Anderson's were obtained by Keldyä at about the same time in [7], [8], and [9]. The recent work of Wilson in [19] answers the second question. In contrast, for two dimensional manifolds R. L. Moore [13] and Roberts and Steenrod [14] show that monotone images have dimension at most two and Stoilow [16] and G. T. Whyburn ([4] is an excellent survey of his work) show that light open mappings are branched coverings and, hence, do not raise dimension. In this paper, we begin a systematic study of the existence of monotone, monotone open, open, and light open mappings from manifolds to polyhedra. In particular, we are interested in when a mapping "is homotopic to" or "can be approximated by" one of the above four types of mappings. In §2, we completely determine those mappings homotopic to monotone mappings. In §3, we give general criteria for the existence of open mappings and use this to show that monotone mappings can be approximated by monotone open mappings; this leads to a determination of those mappings homotopic to monotone open mappings. In a Received by the editors April 15, 1974 and, in revised form, July 1, 1974. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 54C10; Secondary 57C99.