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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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Recent results on absolute retracts for various classes of continua
by
Janusz J. Charatonik
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, POLAND, and U.N.A.M., Mexico, D.F., MEXICO

If C is a class of (metric) continua, a member Y of C is said to be an absolute retract for the class C (writing AR(C)) if for any continuum Z in C such that Y is a subspace of Z, the continuum Y is a retract of Z. Recent results, as well as open questions and problems, concerning properties of members of AR(C) for various classes C of continua are collected in the paper. A special attention is paid to the class of hereditarily unicoherent continua and its subclasses. Most of the presented results are obtained by W. J. Charatonik, J. R. Prajs and the author.

Date received: April 3, 2000

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