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Absolute Approximate Retracts and AR-Spaces
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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A subset A of a topological space X is an approximateretract of X if for every neighborhood U of A in X there is a retract R of X such that A ⊂ R ⊂ U. A compactum X is an absolute approximate retract (AAR-space) if whenever X is embedded as a subset of a compactum Z, then X is an approximate retract of Z. These concepts were first defined in [2] where it is shown that every AAR-space is a contractible Peano continuum. In [3] an example is given to show that there exists a contractible LC∞ compactum which is not an AAR-space.
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