Weakly confluent mappings and the covering property of hyperspaces
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Abstract:
In this note we characterize the continua which are images of weakly confluent mappings only in terms of a covering property for hyperspaces and in terms on an embedding property. This answers some questions of B. Hughes and A. Lelek.References
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- © Copyright 1979 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 74 (1979), 177-182
- MSC: Primary 54F20; Secondary 54B20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1979-0521894-4
- MathSciNet review: 521894