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A short proof that hyperspaces of Peano continua are absolute retracts

Author(s): Sergey Antonyan
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 2187-2189.
MSC (2000): Primary 54B20; Secondary 54C55
Posted: February 15, 2001
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Abstract:

We give a short proof of Wojdyslawski's famous theorem.


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Additional Information:

Sergey Antonyan
Affiliation: Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Circuito Exterior, C.U., 04510, México D.F., México
Email: antonyan@servidor.unam.mx

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06098-1
PII: S 0002-9939(01)06098-1
Keywords: Peano continuum, absolute retract, hyperspace, canonical cover, nerve
Received by editor(s): October 29, 1999
Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 5, 2000
Posted: February 15, 2001
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by PAPIIT (UNAM) research grant IN105800
Communicated by: Alan Dow
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society


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