Compacta with shapes of finite complexes: a direct approach to the Edwards-Geoghegan-Wall

DOI10.1017/9781108526203.007MaRDI QIDQ5216936zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig R. Guilbault

Publication date 20 February 2020

Published in Topological Methods in Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00921

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Shape theory (55P55) Shapes (aspects of topological manifolds) (57N25)

Abstract: An important "stability" theorem in shape theory, due to D.A. Edwards and R. Geoghegan, characterizes those compacta having the same shape as a finite CW complex. In this note we present straightforward and self-contained proof of that theorem.

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