Space S000132

Duncan's space

Let AA be the set of all strictly increasing, infinite sequences of positive integers. For any xAx\in A, define N(n,x)N(n,x) as the number of elements of xx less than nn. Let δ(x)=limnN(n,x)n\delta (x) =\lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{N(n,x)}{n}. Let XX be the subset of AA containing precisely the sequences xx for which δ(x)\delta(x) exists. Now for any x,yXx,y\in X define k(x,y)k(x,y) to be the smallest index ii such that xiyix_i\neq y_i. We define a metric d(x,y)d(x,y) on XX as

d(x,y)=1k(x,y)+δ(x)δ(y) with d(x,x)=0.d(x,y)=\frac{1}{k(x,y)}+|\delta (x) - \delta (y)| \text{ with } d(x,x)=0.

Duncan's Space is the topology on XX induced by this metric.

Defined as counterexample #136 ("Duncan's Space") in DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-6290-9.

Introduced and studied by R. L. Duncan in zbMATH 0085.03002 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2309919) and zbMATH 0109.03302 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2309171).