The homotopy classes of continuous maps between some non-metrizable manifolds

Abstract

Let R be Alexandroff's long ray. We prove that the homotopy classes of continuous maps R^n \to R are in bijection with the antichains of P({1,...,n}). The proof uses partition properties of continuous maps R^n \to R. We also provide a description of $[X,R]$ for some other non-metrizable manifolds X.

17 pages, 3 figures