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Retractive product spaces. (English) Zbl 0707.54006

Summary: A completely regular Hausdorff space X is called retractive if there is a retraction from \(\beta\) X onto \(\beta\) \(X\setminus X\). A product space is retractive if and only if all factors are compact but one which is retractive.

MSC:

54B10 Product spaces in general topology
54C15 Retraction
54D35 Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.)
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