Discrete maps and movability (Q1280263)

The aim of this paper is to show that internally movable compacta and movable compacta have characteristic extension properties of homotopic nature for maps defined on dense subsets. We show that a compact metric space is internally movable if and only if every finite map with small oscillation defined in a dense subset of a metric space is homotopic to a map defined in all the space. On the other hand, a compact metric space is movable if and only if every map with small oscillation is homotopically refinable by finite maps with arbitrary smaller oscillations. Moreover, this property provides an internal characterization of movable spaces.