Approximating certain cell-like maps by homeomorphisms

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Authors Robert D. Edwards

Publication date 1980

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08270

zbMATH Keywords

approximating cell-like maps by homeomorphismsdisjoint disc propertyproper map having cell- like point-inversesproper maps from manifolds onto ANR's

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quotient spaces, decompositions in general topology (54B15) Absolute neighborhood extensor, absolute extensor, absolute neighborhood retract (ANR), absolute retract spaces (general properties) (54C55) Cellularity in topological manifolds (57N60)

Abstract: Given a proper map f : M $ightarrow$ Q, having cell-like point-inverses, from a manifold-without-boundary M onto an ANR Q, it is a much-studied problem to find when f is approximable by homeomorphisms, i.e., when the decomposition of M induced by f is shrinkable (in the sense of Bing). If dimension M $geq$ 5, J. W. Cannon's recent work focuses attention on whether Q has the disjoint disc property (which is: Any two maps of a 2-disc into Q can be homotoped by an arbitrarily small amount to have disjoint images; this is clearly a necessary condition for Q to be a manifold, in this dimension range). This paper establishes that such an f is approximable by homeomorphisms whenever dimension M $geq$ 5 and Q has the disjoint disc property. As a corollary, one obtains that given an arbitrary map f : M $ightarrow$ Q as above, the stabilized map f $imes$ id($mathbb{R}^2$) : M $imes$ $mathbb{R}^2$ -> Q $imes$ $mathbb{R}^2$ is approximable by homeomorphisms. The proof of the theorem is different from the proofs of the special cases in the earlier work of myself and Cannon, and it is quite self-contained. This work provides an alternative proof of L. Siebenmann's Approximation Theorem, which is the case where Q is given to be a manifold.

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