On Expansive Maps of Topological Spaces

Abstract

We show that if there exists a topologically expansive homeomorphism on a uniform space, then the space is always a regular space. Through examples we show that in general composition of topologically expansive homeomorphisms need not be topological expansive and also that conjugate of topologically expansive homeomorphism need not be topological expansive. Further, we obtain a characterization of orbit expansivity in terms of topological expansivity and conclude that if there exists a topologically expansive homeomorphism on a compact uniform space then the space must be metrizable. We also study positively expansive maps on topological space and obtain condition for maps to be positively topological expansive in terms of finite open cover. Further, we show that if there exists a continuous, one-to-one, positively topological expansive map on a compact uniform space, then the space is finite. We also give an example of a positively topological expansive map on a non--Hausdorff space.