Most of results of Bestvina and Mogilski [Characterizing certain incomplete infinite-di- mensional absolute retracts. Michigan Math. J., 33, 291-313 （1986）] on strong Z-sets in ANR＇s and absorbing sets is generaliz...Most of results of Bestvina and Mogilski [Characterizing certain incomplete infinite-di- mensional absolute retracts. Michigan Math. J., 33, 291-313 （1986）] on strong Z-sets in ANR＇s and absorbing sets is generalized to nonseparable case. It is shown that if an ANR X is locally homotopy dense embeddable in infinite-dimensional Hilbert manifolds and w（U） ---- w（X） （where ＂w＂is the topological weight） for each open nonempty subset U of X, then X itself i,~ homotopy dense embeddable in a Hilbert manifold. It is also demonstrated that whenever X is an AR, its weak product W（X, ＊） ---- {（xn）=l C X ： x~ = ＊ for almost all n} is homeomorphic to a pre-Hilbert space E with E EE. An intrinsic characterization of manifolds modelled on such pre-Hilbert spaces is given.展开更多
文摘Most of results of Bestvina and Mogilski [Characterizing certain incomplete infinite-di- mensional absolute retracts. Michigan Math. J., 33, 291-313 （1986）] on strong Z-sets in ANR＇s and absorbing sets is generalized to nonseparable case. It is shown that if an ANR X is locally homotopy dense embeddable in infinite-dimensional Hilbert manifolds and w（U） ---- w（X） （where ＂w＂is the topological weight） for each open nonempty subset U of X, then X itself i,~ homotopy dense embeddable in a Hilbert manifold. It is also demonstrated that whenever X is an AR, its weak product W（X, ＊） ---- {（xn）=l C X ： x~ = ＊ for almost all n} is homeomorphic to a pre-Hilbert space E with E EE. An intrinsic characterization of manifolds modelled on such pre-Hilbert spaces is given.
