Let $𝒟$ denote a true dimension function, i.e., a dimension function such that $𝒟\left({ℝ}^n\right)=n$ for all $n$. For a space $X$, we denote the hyperspace consisting of all compact connected, non-empty subsets by $C\left(X\right)$. If $X$ is a countable infinite product of non-degenerate Peano continua, then the sequence ${\left({𝒟}_{\ge n}\left(C\left(X\right)\right)\right)}_{n=2}^{\infty }$ is $F_{\sigma }$-absorbing in $C\left(X\right)$. As a consequence, there is a homeomorphism $h:C\left(X\right)\to Q^{\infty }$ such that for all $n$, $h\left[\{A\in C\left(X\right):𝒟\left(A\right)\ge n+1\}\right]=B^n\times Q\times Q\times \cdots$, where $B$ denotes the pseudo boundary of the Hilbert cube $Q$. It follows that if $X$ is a countable infinite product of non-degenerate...

Right factorizations for a class of l.s.cṁappings with separable metrizable range are constructed. Besides in the selection and dimension theories, these l.s.cḟactorizations are also successful in solving the problem of factorizing a class of u.s.cṁappings.

An embedding from a Cartesian product of two spaces into the Cartesian product of two spaces is said to be factorwise rigid provided that it is the product of embeddings on the individual factors composed with a permutation of the coordinates. We prove that each embedding of a product of two pseudo-arcs into itself is factorwise rigid. As a consequence, if X and Y are metric continua with the property that each of their nondegenerate proper subcontinua is homeomorphic to the pseudo-arc, then X ×...

A continuum is a compact connected metric space. For a continuum X, let C(X) denote the hyperspace of subcontinua of X. In this paper we construct two nonhomeomorphic fans (dendroids with only one ramification point) X and Y such that C(X) and C(Y) are homeomorphic. This answers a question by Sam B. Nadler, Jr.

The first author has recently proved that if f: X → Y is a k-dimensional map between compacta and Y is p-dimensional (0 ≤ k, p < ∞), then for each 0 ≤ i ≤ p + k, the set of maps g in the space $C(X,I^{p+2k+1-i})$ such that the diagonal product $f\times g:X\to Y\times I^{p+2k+1-i}$ is an (i+1)-to-1 map is a dense $G_{\delta }$-subset of $C(X,I^{p+2k+1-i})$. In this paper, we prove that if f: X → Y is as above and $D_j$ (j = 1,..., k) are superdendrites, then the set of maps h in $C(X,{\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i})$ such that $f\times h:X\to Y\times \left({\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i}\right)$ is (i+1)-to-1 is a dense $G_{\delta }$-subset of $C(X,{\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i})$ for each 0 ≤ i ≤ p.

It is shown that for every at most k-to-one closed continuous map f from a non-empty n-dimensional metric space X, there exists a closed continuous map g from a zero-dimensional metric space onto X such that the composition f∘g is an at most (n+k)-to-one map. This implies that f is a composition of n+k-1 simple ( = at most two-to-one) closed continuous maps. Stronger conclusions are obtained for maps from Anderson-Choquet spaces and ones that satisfy W. Hurewicz's condition (α). The main tool is...

We answer several questions of V. Tkachuk [Fund. Math. 186 (2005)] by showing that ∙ there is a ZFC example of a first countable, 0-dimensional Hausdorff space with no point-countable π-base (in fact, the minimum order of a π-base of the space can be made arbitrarily large); ∙ if there is a κ-Suslin line then there is a first countable GO-space of cardinality κ⁺ in which the order of any π-base is at least κ; ∙ it is consistent to have a first countable,...

We prove that the third symmetric product of a chainable continuum has the fixed point property.