Dimension of compact metric spaces

DOI10.1016/J.INDAG.2017.04.005MaRDI QIDQ1688968zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 12 January 2018

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indag.2017.04.005

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to general topology (54-02) Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic topology (55-02) Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10)

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In the paper under review, the author gives a survey of classical and new results in dimension theory of compact metric spaces. In the first part, the author recalls classical and recently obtained results from covering dimension theory. Topics include the dimension of unions, the dimension of products, the Hurewicz mapping theorem, dimension raising maps, stable intersection in \({\mathbb R}^n\), and universal spaces. In the second part, he recalls basic results in cohomological dimension theory: the Alexandroff Theorem, characterization of cohomological dimension in terms of cell-like or acyclic maps, Bockstein theory, and Shchepin's arithmetics. He also lists important results on infinite dimensional compacta, in particular, an approach based on generalized cohomology. In the last part, he sketches some applications of dimension theory to topology of manifolds and geometric group theory: convergence in Gromov-Hausdorff spaces, surgery on topological manifolds, Hilbert-Smith conjecture, boundaries of groups, and large scale dimension.

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