Locally contractible spaces that are absolute neighborhood retracts

Haver, William E.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1973-0331311-X

Locally contractible spaces that are absolute neighborhood retracts
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by William E. Haver

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (1973), 280-284

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1973-0331311-X

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Abstract:

It is shown that every locally contractible metric space that is the countable union of finite dimensional compacta is an absolute neighborhood retract.

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