Infinity-to-one function

487 Views Asked by At

Are there continuous functions $f:I\to S^2$ such that $f^{-1}(\{x\})$ is infinite for every $x\in S^2$?

Here, $I=[0,1]$ and $S^2$ is the unit sphere.

I have no idea how to do this.

Note: This is not homework! The question came up when I was thinking about something else.

1

There are 1 best solutions below

5
On BEST ANSWER

Consider a space filling curve $\gamma: I \rightarrow I^2$, the projection $q: I^2 \rightarrow S^2$ given by the quotient topology on the square that furnishes the sphere, and the projection $\pi: I^2 \rightarrow I$ on the first coordinate.

The map $q \circ \gamma \circ \pi \circ \gamma$ satisfies what you want.