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A Characterization of LCn Compacta in Terms of Gromov-Hausdorff Convergence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kazuhiro Kawamura*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W0
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Abstract

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It is proved that a compactum is locally n-connected if and only if it is the limit (in the sense of Gromov-Hausdorff convergence) of an "equi-locally n-connected" sequence of (at most) (n + 1)-dimensional compacta.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1994

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