{ "id": "math/0308294", "version": "v1", "published": "2003-08-29T17:05:51.000Z", "updated": "2003-08-29T17:05:51.000Z", "title": "Positively expansive homeomorphisms of compact spaces", "authors": [ "David Richeson", "Jim Wiseman" ], "comment": "5 pages", "categories": [ "math.DS" ], "abstract": "We give a new and elementary proof showing that a homeomorphism of a compact metric space is positively expansive if and only if the space is finite.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2003-08-29T17:05:51.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "37B05" ], "keywords": [ "positively expansive homeomorphisms", "compact spaces", "compact metric space", "elementary proof showing" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2003math......8294R" } } }