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The Cantor Set

In: A Comprehensive Textbook on Metric Spaces

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  • Surinder Pal Singh Kainth

    (Panjab University, Department of Mathematics)

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This chapter is a detailed treatise on the Cantor set. It starts with a thorough discussion on the basic properties of this set. Then we present a weaker version of Tychonoff’s theorem, which leads to an infinite product representation of the Cantor set. In the next section, we discuss a result of Alexandroff and Hausdorff which states that every complete perfect metric space contains a copy of the Cantor discontinuum. We provide various characterizations of the Cantor space and their applications; including the Brouwer’s theorem which states that every totally disconnected, compact, and perfect metric space is homeomorphic to the Cantor set. We also present a continuous real function that interpolates every bounded sequence of real numbers. This chapter winds up with some miscellaneous topics such as the Cantor function, homeomorphic permutations, and Cantor’s leaky tent.

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  • Surinder Pal Singh Kainth, 2023. "The Cantor Set," Springer Books, in: A Comprehensive Textbook on Metric Spaces, chapter 0, pages 279-307, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-99-2738-8_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-2738-8_10
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