Normal systems over ANR's, rigid embeddings and nonseparable absorbing sets (Q1757928)

The notion of strong \(Z\)-set has played an important role in studying ANR's. In this paper, the results of \textit{M. Bestvina} and \textit{J. Mogilski} [Mich. Math. J. 33, 291--313 (1986; Zbl 0629.54011)] on strong \(Z\)-sets in ANR's and absorbing sets are generalized to the nonseparable case. In order to deal with nonseparable ANR's, the author introduces the notion of normal system, and using it, he proves that if an ANR \(X\) is locally homotopy dense embeddable in infinite-dimensional Hilbert manifolds and \(w(U) = w(X)\) for each nonempty open subset \(U\) of \(X\), where \(w\) denotes the topological weight, then \(X\) is homotopy dense embeddable in a Hilbert manifold. Here, a subset \(A\) of an ANR \(Y\) is homotopy dense in \(Y\) iff there exists a homotopy \(H: Y\times I \rightarrow I\) such that \(H(y, 0) = y\) for each \(y\in Y\) and \(H(Y\times (0, 1]) \subset A\). Other related problems are studied. The author introduces the notion of rigid embedding (into a normed space) and proves that if \(X\) is an AR, the weak product \(W(X, \ast) = \{(x_n)_{n=1}^{\infty} : \text{}x_n \ast\) for almost all \(n\)