Tautness and locally finitely-valued Alexander-Spanier cochains

Deo, Satya; Roy, Atul N.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1988-0921011-8

Tautness and locally finitely-valued Alexander-Spanier cochains
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by Satya Deo and Atul N. Roy

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 102 (1988), 426-430

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1988-0921011-8

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Abstract:

In this paper we prove that the following two subspaces are tautly embedded with respect to Alexander-Spanier cohomology based on locally finitely-valued cochains: (i) any neighborhood retract of arbitrary topological space, and (ii) any compact subset of a Hausdorff space.

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