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Title

Bing maps and finite-dimensional maps

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel

Abstract

Let X and Y be compacta and let f:X → Y be a k-dimensional map. In [5] Pasynkov stated that if Y is finite-dimensional then there exists a map g:XIk such that dim (f × g) = 0. The problem that we deal with in this note is whether or not the restriction on the dimension of Y in the Pasynkov theorem can be omitted. This problem is still open.  Without assuming that Y is finite-dimensional Sternfeld [6] proved that there exists a map g:XIk such that dim (f × g) = 1. We improve this result of Sternfeld showing that there exists a map g:XIk+1 such that dim (f × g) =0. The last result is generalized to maps f with weakly infinite-dimensional fibers.  Our proofs are based on so-called Bing maps. A compactum is said to be a Bing compactum if its compact connected subsets are all hereditarily indecomposable, and a map is said to be a Bing map if all its fibers are Bing compacta. Bing maps on finite-dimensional compacta were constructed by Brown [2]. We construct Bing maps for arbitrary compacta. Namely, we prove that for a compactum X the set of all Bing maps from X to I is a dense Gδ-subset of C(X,I).

Keywords

finite-dimensional maps, hereditarily indecomposable continua

Bibliography

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  2. N. Brown, Continuous collections of higher dimensional indecomposable continua, Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1958.
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Pages:
47-52
Main language of publication
English
Received
1996-01-04
Accepted
1996-05-19
Published
1996
Exact and natural sciences