On an internal property of absolute retracts,II

Let X be a (metrizable) space. A mixer for X is, roughly speaking, a map μ:X³→X such that μ(x, x, y) = μ(x, y, x) = μ(y, x, x) = x for all x, y ∈ X. We show that each AR has a mixer and that a finite dimensional path connected space with a mixer is an AR. Our main result is that each separable space with a mixer and having an open cover by sets contractible within the whole space, is LEC.