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Lelek's problem is not a metric problem

General Topology 2014-01-15 v4 Logic

Abstract

We show that Lelek's problem on the chainability of continua with span zero is not a metric problem: from a non-metric counterexample one can construct a metric one.

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@article{arxiv.0810.1643,
  title  = {Lelek's problem is not a metric problem},
  author = {Dana Bartosova and Logan Hoehn and Klaas Pieter Hart and Berd van der Steeg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1643},
  year   = {2014}
}

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