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Products of span zero continua and the fixed point property

Author(s): M. M. Marsh
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1849-1853.
MSC (2000): Primary 54H25, 54B10; Secondary 54F15, 54C10
Posted: November 7, 2003
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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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Additional Information:

M. M. Marsh
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California 95819-6051
Email: mmarsh@csus.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07286-1
PII: S 0002-9939(03)07286-1
Received by editor(s): October 2, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 21, 2003
Posted: November 7, 2003
Communicated by: Alan Dow
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society


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