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Keywords:
retraction; homogeneous space; topological groups; coset space
retraction; homogeneous space; topological groups; coset space
Summary:
We show that every retral continuum with the fixed point property is locally connected. It follows that an indecomposable continuum with the fixed point property is not a retract of a topological group.
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