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Extensions of maps to the projective plane

### Jerzy Dydak and Michael Levin

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 5 (2005) 1711–1718
 arXiv: math.GT/0410370
##### Abstract

It is proved that for a $3$–dimensional compact metrizable space $X$ the infinite real projective space $ℝ{P}^{\infty }$ is an absolute extensor of $X$ if and only if the real projective plane $ℝ{P}^{2}$ is an absolute extensor of $X$ (see Theorems 1.2 and 1.5).

##### Keywords
cohomological, extensional dimensions, projective spaces
Primary: 55M10
Secondary: 54F45
##### Publication
Accepted: 7 November 2005
Published: 7 December 2005
##### Authors
 Jerzy Dydak Department of Mathematics University of Tennessee Knoxville TN 37996-1300 USA http://www.math.utk.edu/~dydak/ Michael Levin Department of Mathematics Ben Gurion University of the Negev P.O.B. 653 Be’er Sheva 84105 Israel