Institution: | Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, 601 Elm Ave., Rm. 423, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 ; Department of Mathematics, Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma 73050 |
Abstract: | We prove a -resolution theorem for simply connected CW- complexes in extension theory in the class of metrizable compacta . This means that if is a connected CW-complex, is an abelian group, , , for , and (in the sense of extension theory, that is, is an absolute extensor for ), then there exists a metrizable compactum and a surjective map such that: (a) is -acyclic, (b) , and (c) . This implies the -resolution theorem for arbitrary abelian groups for cohomological dimension when . Thus, in case is an Eilenberg-MacLane complex of type , then (c) becomes . If in addition , then (a) can be replaced by the stronger statement, (aa) is -acyclic. To say that a map is -acyclic means that for each , every map of the fiber to is nullhomotopic. |