2-ghastly spaces with the disjoint homotopies property: The method of fractured maps. (Q1426494)

A \(2\)-ghastly space is a resolvable generalized manifold that contains no embedded \(2\)-cells. A space \(X\) has the disjoint homotopies property if any two path homotopies \(f,g: D \times I \rightarrow X\) can be approximated by homotopies \(f',g': D \times I \rightarrow X\) such that \(f'_{t}(D) \cap g'_{t}(D) = \emptyset\) for all \(t \in T\) where \(D=I=[0,1]\). In an earlier paper [Topology Appl. 117, No. 3, 231--258 (2002; Zbl 0992.57024)] the author has shown that this latter property is sufficient to characterize resolvable generalized manifolds of dimension \(n \geq 4\) as codimension one manifold factors. \textit{R. J. Daverman} and \textit{J. J. Walsh} [Ill. J. Math. 25, 555--576 (1981; Zbl 0478.57014)] have shown that there exist \(2\)-ghastly spaces that are codimension one manifold factors. This paper shows that \(2\)-ghastly spaces with the disjoint homotopies property exist.