Trees and Homogeneous LOTS

Abstract

We describe those complete linearly ordered topological spaces $X$ which are homogeneous (=CHLOTS). That is, $X$ is order isomorphic with any nonempty open interval in $X$. Using countable tail-like ordinals as indices, we build towers of distinct CHLOTS. Using tree constructions we are able to extend the towers and to describe an inductive procedure which yields every CHLOTS.