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Jack Porter

  • Balfour S. Jeffrey Teaching Professor
  • Office: 516 Snow Hall
  • Phone: (785) 864-4367
  • Fax: (785) 864-5255
  • E-Mail: porter

Research Interests

General Topology
Topological Extensions

Prof. Porter mathematical interests are in general topology specializing in extensions and absolutes of Hausdorff spaces.

Selected Publications

Embedding in R-closed spaces, Topology and its Appl., 15 (1983), 45-58 (with A. Dow).

Spaces with coarser minimal Hausdorff topologies, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 289 (1985), 59-71. (with J. Vermeer).

On Katetov spaces, Canad. Math. Bull., 32(2) (1989), 425-433. (with M. Tikoo). Tychonoff embedding, Recent Developments of General Topology and its Applications, Proc 1992 International Conference in Memory of Felix Hausdorff, Berlin, Germany Mathematical Research 67 (1992), 261-267.

Extensions of discrete spaces, Proc. 1991 Summer Conference on Topology, Madison, Wisconsin, New York Academy of Sciences 704 (1993), 290-296.

Subspaces of connected spaces, Topology and its Applications 68 (1996), 113-131. (with R. G. Woods).