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Interrelations between some noncontractibility conditions

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Relations are investigated between some sufficient conditions for noncontractibility of dendroids and of fans. A special attention is paid to pairwise smoothness and the existence ofR i-continua fori=1, and 3.

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1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 54F15, 54F50.

Key words and phrases. Component, continuum, contractible, dendroid, domination of sequences, fan, pairwise smooth,R i-continuum,T-function.

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Charatonik, J.J., Lee, T.J. & Omiljanowski, K. Interrelations between some noncontractibility conditions. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 41, 31–54 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02844461

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