Different types of relative contractibility and their applications (Q1694804)

The paper investigates new properties of relative retracts studied by the author in the paper [J. Fixed Point Theory Appl. 18, No. 4, 801--822 (2016; Zbl 1359.54012)]. In order to obtain this goal the following classes of spaces and maps are introduced: Let \(\Delta\) denote a family of nonempty compact subsets of the Hilbert cube \(Q\) that contains all one-point subsets and is closed with respect to countable products and embeddings into \(Q\). Then a proper map \(g:Z \to X\) between metrizable spaces having the property that \(g^{-1}(x) \in \Delta,\) \(x\in X\) is called a \(\Delta\)-map. Examples of such maps are CE-maps and movable maps. Notions from the theory of retracts are analogously introduced and applied to characterizations of connected and locally connected spaces like: Let \(X\) be a compact space. \(X\) is an absolute relative retract with respect to movable maps if and only if \(X\) is a locally connected continuum.