Self-homeomorphisms of the 2-sphere which fix pointwise a nonseparating continuum

Paul Fabel

Fundamenta Mathematicae (1998)

  • Volume: 155, Issue: 3, page 201-214
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

Abstract

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We prove that the space of orientation preserving homeomorphisms of the 2-sphere which fix pointwise a nontrivial nonseparating continuum is a contractible absolute neighborhood retract homeomorphic to the separable Hilbert space l 2 .

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Fabel, Paul. "Self-homeomorphisms of the 2-sphere which fix pointwise a nonseparating continuum." Fundamenta Mathematicae 155.3 (1998): 201-214. <http://eudml.org/doc/212252>.

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