Proper classes of non-embeddable continua

Abstract

Our main result is a construction of a class H of pathwise connected, locally connected, compact Hausdorff spaces such that (i) if X,Y are distinct spaces in H then a continuous, injective mapping from X to Y does not exist; (ii) H contains 2^k spaces of weight k and size k for every cardinal number k not smaller than the cardinality of the continuum; (iii) if k,l are infinite cardinals and l is not greater than k then H contains 2^k spaces of weight k and size k^l; (iv) the metrizable continua in H are subspaces of the plane.