A note on the continuous self-maps of the ladder system space

Abstract

Abstract. We give a partial characterization of the continuous selfmaps of the ladder system space KS. Our results show that KS is highly nonrigid. We also discuss reasonable notions of "few operators" for spaces C(K) with scattered K and we show that C(KS) does not have few operators for such notions.

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