Is a monotone union of contractible open sets contractible?

DOI10.1016/j.topol.2016.10.001zbMath1354.54024arXiv1606.05379OpenAlexW2963153673MaRDI QIDQ340730

Robert D. Edwards, Fredric D. Ancel

Publication date: 15 November 2016

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05379

zbMATH Keywords

locally compactcontractibility\(\sigma\)-compactmonotone unionnormal space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy theory (55P99) Fairly general properties of topological spaces (54D99) Topological manifolds (57N99) Classical topics in algebraic topology (55M99)

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