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On Borsuk's non-retract theorem

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2024-07-19 v1

Abstract

The classical Borsuk's non-retract theorem asserts that a unit sphere in Rn\mathbb{R}^n is not a continuous retract of the unit closed ball. We will show that such a unit sphere is a piecewise continuous retract of the unit closed ball.

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@article{arxiv.2407.13395,
  title  = {On Borsuk's non-retract theorem},
  author = {Waldemar Sieg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13395},
  year   = {2024}
}

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4 pages

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