Fibered stable compacta have finite homotopy type

Geoghegan, Ross

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1978-0515418-4

Fibered stable compacta have finite homotopy type

Author: Ross Geoghegan
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 71 (1978), 123-129
MSC: Primary 55D15; Secondary 57A65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1978-0515418-4
Erratum: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 74 (1979), 391.
MathSciNet review: 0515418
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Abstract: It is proved that a fibered compact metric space having the shape of a CW complex has the homotopy type of that complex, and that its Wall obstruction to finiteness is zero.

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