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A Note on Whitney Maps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

L. E. Ward Jr.*
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Department of Mathematics University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403 U.S.A.
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In his recent book [3] Nadler observes that the property of admitting a Whitney map is of fundamental importance in studying the internal structure of hyperspaces, especially their arc structure. Nadler presents three distinct methods of constructing a Whitney map on the hyperspace 2X of nonempty closed subsets of a continuum.

A partially ordered space is a topological space X endowed with a partial order ≤ whose graph is a closed subset of X×X. It is well-known (see, for example, [2], page 167) that if X is a regular Hausdorff space then 2X is a partially ordered space with respect to inclusion.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1980

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