On the dimension of Z-sets

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2013.07.017MaRDI QIDQ387232zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig R. Guilbault, Carrie J. Tirel

Publication date 20 December 2013

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3663

zbMATH Keywords

covering dimension\(\mathcal Z\)-boundary\(\mathcal Z\)-compactification\(\mathcal Z\)-set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10)

Abstract: We offer a short and elementary proof that, for a Z-set A in a finite-dimensional ANR Y, dimA<dimY. This result is relevant to the study of group boundaries. The original proof by Bestvina and Mess relied on cohomological dimension theory.

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