Products of span zero continua and the fixed point property

Marsh, M.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07286-1

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.

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