The bing-Borsuk and the busemann conjectures

Mathematical Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-184

  Halverson, Denise M ^a   Repovš, Dušan ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ANR; Bing Borsuk conjecture; Busemann conjecture; Busemann G space; Cell like resolution; De Groot conjecture; Delta embedding property; Disjoint disks property; Gen eralized manifold; General position property; Homo geneity; Moore conjecture; Recognition theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149122391     PISSN: 13310623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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