Tuesday 22 December 2009

gn.general topology - Topological spaces that resemble the space of irrationals

(This question actually arose in some research on number theory.)



I once learned that any countable dense subspace of any Euclidean space ℝn is homeomorphic to the rationals ℚ.



Now I wonder if something similar is true for the irrationals J := ℝ - ℚ (with the subspace topology from ℝ).



Let c denote the cardinality of the continuum.




I. Is each cartesian power Jn homeomorphic to J ?




Also, how far can this be pushed?




II. Let X be a dense totally disconnected subspace of ℝn such that every neighborhood of each point of X contains c points. Is X homeomorphic to J ?




What about for such subspaces of fairly nice subspaces of ℝn ?




IIa. Let X be any subspace of ℝn as described in II., and let B denote any subspace of ℝn homeomorphic to [the open unit ball in ℝn union any subset of its boundary]. Then is X ∩ B homeomorphic to J ?




And what about greater generality ?




III. Is there a simple set of conditions that describe exactly all spaces (or subspaces of ℝn) that are homeomorphic to J ? What about Jn ? (Perhaps the word homogeneous or metric needs to be included.)




(I found nothing relevant via Google, in MathSciNet, or here on MathOverflow.)

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