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A weakly infinite-dimensional compactum which is not countable-dimensional
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Abstract:

A compact metric space is constructed which is neither a countable union of zero-dimensional sets nor has an essential map onto the Hilbert cube.
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  • © Copyright 1981 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1981), 634-636
  • MSC: Primary 54F45
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0614892-2
  • MathSciNet review: 614892