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Spring General Topology & Dynamic Systems Conference
March 16-19, 2000
University of the Incarnate Word and The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX, USA

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Fibrant extensions and conditions of movability
by
Alexander Bykov
Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México

The concept of a fibrant extension of compacta can be used in the study of some properties related to different conditions of movability. For example, ``empty'' strong shape components of a given compact metric space X, introduced in [1], correspond to those path components of a fibrant extension Y of X, which do not intersect X. The fibrant extension Y can be constructed as a cotelescope of an ANR-sequence associated with X. Using this representation we prove the following: If a continuum is movable and virtually pointed 1-movable, then it is pointed movable.

As a corollary, we get immediately that movable continua, which do not have ``empty'' strong shape components, are pointed movable. In particular, continua, both fibrant and movable, are of this kind. In fact, they are locally path connected approximative polyhedra.

[1] R.Geoghegan, J.Krasinkiewich, Empty components in strong shape theory, Topology Appl., 41 (1991), 213-233.

Date received: January 27, 2000


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