Classifying homogeneous cellular ordinal balleans up to coarse equivalence
arXiv:1409.3910 · doi:10.4064/cm6785-4-2017
Abstract
For every ballean we introduce two cardinal characteristics and describing the capacity of balls in . We observe that these cardinal characteristics are invariant under coarse equivalence and prove that two cellular ordinal balleans are coarsely equivalent if and . This result implies that a cellular ordinal ballean is homogeneous if and only if . Moreover, two homogeneous cellular ordinal balleans are coarsely equivalent if and only if and if and only if each of these balleans coarsely embeds into the other ballean. This means that the coarse structure of a homogeneous cellular ordinal ballean is fully determined by the values of the cardinals and . For every limit ordinal we shall define a ballean (called the Cantor macro-cube), which in the class of cellular ordinal balleans of cofinality plays a role analogous to the role of the Cantor cube in the class of zero-dimensional compact Hausdorff spaces. We shall also present a characterization of balleans which are coarsely equivalent to . This characterization can be considered as an asymptotic analogue of Brouwer's characterization of the Cantor cube .
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