The multi-valued domination of metric spaces (Q367400)

In 1967 K. Borsuk introduced the notion of domination in the class of metric spaces and proved that domination retains the fixed point property in the following sense: if \(Y\) dominates \(X\) and \(Y\) is a Lefschetz space, then \(X\) is a Lefschetz space as well. The notion of domination was generalized to multi-valued functions, firstly by \textit{A. Suszycki} in [Fundam. Math. 115, 9--26 (1983; Zbl 0529.55013)] and later by \textit{R. Skiba} and \textit{M. Ślosarski} in [Topology Appl. 156, No. 4, 697--709 (2009; Zbl 1166.54008)]. However, the domination in the sense of Suszycki did not retain the fixed point property. In this paper the author defines a new notion of multi-valued domination of metric spaces. It is shown that the introduced notion is a generalization of Borsuk domination and retains the fixed point property. Moreover, the notion encompasses previous generalizations.