On a generalization of absolute neighborhood retracts (Q1005162)

The authors introduce and study two new classes of spaces: absolute multi-retracts (AMR) and absolute neighborhood multi-retracts (ANMR), which generalize the concepts of absolute retract (AR) and absolute neighborhood retract (ANR), respectively. They show, among other things, that an ANMR need be neither an ANR nor an approximate ANR in the sense of M. H. Clapp. In the final section they show by means of specialized homological techniques that fixed point theory can be extended to ANMRs. In particular, they prove some fixed point of Lefschetz type for admissible maps defined on ANMRs.