On inverse limits with set-valued functions on graphs, dimensionally stepwise spaces and ANRs (Q530195)

It is a classical result that every compactum can be obtained as the limit of an inverse system of compact polyhedra and continuous maps. More recently the study of inverse limits with bonding maps has become an important tool in Topology and Topological Dynamical Systems, developing in an actual topic of Continuum Theory. In this paper a separable metric space \(X\) is a \textit{dimensionally stepwise space} if it has finite topological dimension \(\dim X\) and for any \(1< m< \dim X\) there is an open set \(U_m\subset X\) with \(\dim\;U_m=m\). Given an inverse sequence \(\{X_i, f_{i,i+1}\}_{i\in \mathbb N}\) of compacta with upper semicontinuous set-valued functions, after having introduced two new indexes \(\tilde I \{X_i, f_{i,i+1}\}_{i\in \mathbb N}\) and \(\tilde W \{X_i, f_{i,i+1}\}_{i\in \mathbb N}\), the authors investigate the topological structure of inverse limits of graphs with upper semicontinuous set-valued functions, proving a number of interesting results.