Products of span zero continua and the fixed point property
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Abstract:
We prove that products of surjective mappings from continua onto span zero continua are universal. It follows that products of span zero continua have the fixed point property.References
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Additional Information
- M. M. Marsh
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California 95819-6051
- Email: mmarsh@csus.edu
- Received by editor(s): October 2, 2002
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 21, 2003
- Published electronically: November 7, 2003
- Communicated by: Alan Dow
- © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1849-1853
- MSC (2000): Primary 54H25, 54B10; Secondary 54F15, 54C10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07286-1
- MathSciNet review: 2051150