Open AccessOn contractible 𝑛-dimensional compacta, non-embeddable into ℝ²ⁿ
Author(s) -
Dušan Repovš,
A. Skopenkov
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
proceedings of the american mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.968
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1088-6826
pISSN - 0002-9939
DOI - 10.1090/s0002-9939-00-05972-4
Subject(s) - algorithm , annotation , computer science , artificial intelligence
We present a very short proof of a well-known result, that for each n n there exists a contractible n n -dimensional compactum, non-embeddable into R 2 n \mathbb {R}^{2n} .