On the bihomogeneity problem of Knaster

Kuperberg, Krystyna

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1990-0989579-7

On the bihomogeneity problem of Knaster
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 321 (1990), 129-143 Request permission

Abstract:

The author constructs a locally connected, homogeneous, finitedimensional, compact, metric space which is not bihomogeneous, thus providing a compact counterexample to a problem posed by B. Knaster around 1921.

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