Article
Keywords:
continuum; locally connected; open; light; fan; order; component number
Summary:
Whyburn has proved that each open mapping defined on arc (a simple closed curve) is light. Charatonik and Omiljanowski have proved that each open mapping defined on a local dendrite is light. Theorem 3.8 is an extension of these results.
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