(1) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, McLean Hall, 106 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5E6;(2) Department of Mathematics, University of Swaziland, Pr. Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland
Abstract:
Extension dimension is characterized in terms of -maps. We apply this result to prove that extension dimension is preserved by refinable maps between metrizable spaces. It is also shown that refinable maps preserve some infinite-dimensional properties.