Abstract
A topological space is called “rigid” if its autohomeomorphism group is trivial. In (1), de Groot and McDowell showed that there are rigid, 0- dimensional spaces of arbitrarily high cardinality but left open the question of whether or not there are compact,rigid, 0-dimensional spaces of arbitrarily high cardinality, pointing out that an affirmative answer implies the existence of arbitrarily large Boolean rings with trivial automorphism groups. In this paper we construct a class of rigid, 0-dimensional spaces X αof arbitrary infinite cardinality and show that their Stone-Cech compactifications βX αare also rigid, thus answering the above question affirmatively.I would like to thank S. W. Willard, J. R. Isbell, and the referee for their careful readings of preliminary versions of this paper.
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