Yu. M. Smirnov's general equivariant shape theory (Q388015)

Ordinary shape theory can be established by fixing in a category \(\mathcal T\) (e.g., a homotopy category of topological spaces) a subcategory \(\mathcal P\) of ``good objects'' (e.g., ANRs, polyhedra, CW spaces) and trying to associate with each object \(X \in \mathcal T\) an inverse system \(\{ P_\alpha, p_{\alpha\beta}\}\) in \(\mathcal P\) (sometimes called a \(\mathcal P\)-resolution) satisfying certan conditions. The present paper deals with the homotopy category of equivariant \(G\)-spaces (\(G\) being a compact group) and \(G\)-ANRs in this category as good spaces. To achieve this the author adjusts the well-known embedding of a space into a linear normed space \(M(X)\) to the equivariant case. The equivariant shape of Yu. Smirnov is the ordinary shape which is achieved by using this procedure. The paper does not contain any results about equivariant (ordinary) shape theory.