Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1999
For any topological space X let C(X) be the realization of the singular cubical set of X; let [midast ] be the topological space consisting of one point. In [1] Antolini proves, as a corollary to a general theorem about cubical sets, that C(X) and X×C([midast ]) are homotopy equivalent, provided X is a CW-complex. In this note we give a short geometric proof that for any topological space X there is a natural weak homotopy equivalence between C(X) and X×C([midast ]).