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(Non-)contractible road spaces of trees

General Topology 2019-08-28 v1

Abstract

We prove that the road space of an R-special tree is contractible and that a locally metrizable space containing a copy of an uncountable ω1\omega_1-compact subspace of a tree is not. We also raise some questions about possible generalizations.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09901,
  title  = {(Non-)contractible road spaces of trees},
  author = {Mathieu Baillif},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09901},
  year   = {2019}
}
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