Skeletally Dugundji spaces (Q2440511)

A map \(f\) is skeletal iff \(\text{Int }\text{cl}f[U]\) is nonempty whenever \(U\) is open and nonempty. A Tychonoff space, \(X\), is skeletally Dugundji if it is a subspace of the limit of an inverse system \(\langle X_\alpha, p^\beta_\alpha:\alpha<\beta<\kappa\rangle\) where: \(X_0\) is separable and metrizable, for every \(\alpha\) the space~\(X_{\alpha+1}\) is a subspace of a product of~\(X_\alpha\) and a separable and metrizable space and \(p^{\alpha+1}_\alpha\)~is the projection, \(X\) is mapped onto every~\(X_\alpha\) by the projection, and every bounded real-valued continuous function factors through one of the projections. The authors characterize and investigate skeletally Dugundji spaces; an important result identifies these spaces as exactly those every compactification of whose is co-absolute with a Dugundji space.