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Characterizing $k$-dimensional universal Menger compacta
About this Title
Mladen Bestvina
Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year:
1988; Volume 71, Number 380
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2443-6 (print); 978-1-4704-0800-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0380
MathSciNet review: 920964
MSC: Primary 54F65; Secondary 55M10, 57N15
Table of Contents
Chapters
- Introduction
- Definitions and notation
- 1. Partitions
- 2. Basic moves
- 3. The $Z$-set unknotting theorem
- 4. The decomposition theory of Menger manifolds
- 5. The characterization theorem
- 6. Noncompact Menger manifolds
- Appendix