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A hereditarily indecomposable tree-like continuum without the fixed point property

Author(s): Piotr Minc
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 643-654.
MSC (2000): Primary 54F15; Secondary 54H25
Posted: September 17, 1999
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Abstract: A hereditarily indecomposable tree-like continuum without the fixed point property is constructed. The example answers a question of Knaster and Bellamy.

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Piotr Minc
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849
Email: mincpio@mail.auburn.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02570-2
PII: S 0002-9947(99)02570-2
Keywords: Tree-like continuum, hereditarily indecomposable, fixed points
Received by editor(s): September 19, 1997
Posted: September 17, 1999
Additional Notes: This research was supported in part by NSF grant # DMS-9505108.
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society

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