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Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference
March 15-17, 2001
Centro de Convenciones
Morelia City, Michoacán, Mexico

Organizers
Alejandro Illanes, Sergio Macías, Jesus Muciño, María Luisa Pérez

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Expansive homeomorphisms and plane continua
by
Christopher Mouron
University of Delaware

A homeomorphism h:X --> X is called expansive provided that for some fixed c > 0 and every x, y in X there exists an integer n, dependent only on x and y, such that d(hn(x), hn(y)) > c. It is shown that if X is a tree-like continuum, then h cannot be expansive. Also, an example of a 2-dimensional planar continuum that admits an expansive homeomorphism is given.

Date received: February 7, 2001


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