A monotonically irreducible map of a reducible continuum onto [0,1] (Q989095)

A mapping between metric continua \(f:X\to Y\) is said to be (a) monotone provided that \(f^{-1}(B)\) is connected for each subcontinuum \(B\) of \(Y\), and (b) monotonically reducible, if there is a proper closed subset \(D\) of \(X\) for which the restriction of \(f\) to \(D\) is a monotone map of \(D\) onto \(Y\). A monotone surjective mapping is monotonically irreducible if it is not monotonically reducible. In 1978, in Problem 101 of ''The Houston problem book'' [\textit{H. Cook, W. T. Ingram, A. Lelek}, A list of problems known as Houston Problem Book. Continua with the Houston problem book. Based on the special session on modern methods in continuum theory, held within the 100th annual joint mathematics meetings in Cincinnati, OH, USA, January 12--15, 1994. New York: Marcel Dekker. Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 170, 365--398 (1995; Zbl 0828.54001)], L. Mohler and L. E. Ward asked whether each continuum that admits a monotonically irreducible mapping onto \([0,1]\) must be irreducible. In the paper under review, the author constructs an example of a metric continuum which answers this question in the negative.