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Absolute Approximate Retracts and AR-Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John R. Martin*
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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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 ARU. 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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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1981

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