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A continuum is said to be contractible provided there
is a homotopy
such that for some point
we have
and
for each (see e.g.
[Nadler 1978, (16.2), p. 532]).
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Janusz J. Charatonik, Pawel Krupski and Pavel Pyrih
2001-11-30