The dimension of remainders of rim-compact spaces

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Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Informatics, TU Delft, Postbus 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands

Answering a question of Isbell we show that there exists a rim-compact space X such that every compactification Y of X has dim(Y\X)≥ 1.

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