Certain results on extending maps taking values in Hilbert manifolds by maps which are close to being embeddings are presented. Sufficient conditions on a map under which it is extendable by an embedding are given. In particular, it is shown that if X is a completely metrizable space of topological weight not greater than α ≥ ℵ₀, A is a closed set in X and f: X → M is a map into a manifold M modelled on a Hilbert space of dimension α such that $f\left(X\setminus A\right)\cap \overline{f\left(\partial A\right)}=\varnothing$, then for every open cover of M there is a map g:...

We characterize, in terms of X, the extensional dimension of the Stone-Čech corona βX∖X of a locally compact and Lindelöf space X. The non-Lindelöf case is also settled in terms of extending proper maps with values in $I^{\tau }\setminus L$, where L is a finite complex. Further, for a finite complex L, an uncountable cardinal τ and a $Z_{\tau }$-set X in the Tikhonov cube $I^{\tau }$ we find a necessary and sufficient condition, in terms of $I^{\tau }\setminus X$, for X to be in the class AE([L]). We also introduce a concept of a proper absolute extensor and...