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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2020)
Serdica Mathematical Journal

Surveys

Homogeneous metric \(ANR\)-compacta

Published 22-06-2020

  • Vesko Valov

Vesko Valov
Nipissing University, Canada

Abstract

This is a survey of most important results and unsolved problems about homogeneous finite-dimensional metric ANR-compacta. We also discuss some partial results and possible ways of solutions.

2020 Mathematics Subject Classification:

54C55, 55M15

Keywords

absolute neighborhood retracts, cohomological dimension, cohomology and homology groups, homogeneous compacta.

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Author Details

Vesko Valov

Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
Nipissing University
100 College Drive
P.O. Box 5002, North Bay, ON, P1B 8L7, Canada
e-mail: veskov@nipissingu.ca

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