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First International Meeting on Continuum Theory
June 29 - July 1, 2000
Facultad de Ciencias Fisico-Matematicas de la Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
Puebla, Mexico

Organizers
Raul Escobedo, Fernando Macias, Sergio Macias, Richard Schori, Carl Seaquist

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Non-confluence of the natural map of products onto symmetric products.
by
Jorge M. Martinez-Montejano
West Virginia University

Let X be a nondegenerate continuum; the cartesian product of X with itself n times is denoted by Xn, and the n-fold symmetric of X with the Hausdorff metric is denoted by Fn(X). It is proved that for each n >= 3, the natural map from Xn onto Fn(X) is not k-confluent for any positive integer k.

Date received: March 21, 2000

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