More absorbers in hyperspaces (Q2400874)

It is known that any two absorbers in a Hilbert cube \({\mathcal Q}\) of a given Borel or projective class are homeomorphic. Thus, the method of absorbers is a very powerful tool to characterize some subspaces of the hyperspaces \({\mathcal Q}\) = \(2^{X}\) of all nonempty closed subsets of a nondegenerate Peano continuum \(X\) or \({\mathcal Q}=C(X)\) of all subcontinua of \(X\) (when \(X\) contains no free arcs). In the paper under review, the authors show some new examples of absorbers in the hyperspaces of cubes, \(n\)-manifolds or Hilbert cube manifolds. Two samples of the results included in this paper are the following. The family of all subcontinua that separate a compact connected \(n\)-manifold \(X\) (with or without boundary), \(n \geq 3\), is an \(F_\sigma\)-absorber in the hyperspace \(C(X)\) of subcontinua of \(X\). The families of nondegenerate colocally connected or aposyndetic continua in \([0,1]^{n}\) and or at least two-dimensional or decomposable Kelley continua are \(F_{\sigma\delta}\)-absorbers in the hyperspace \(C([0,1]^{n})\) for \( n\geq 3\).