Department of Mathematics, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel ; Department of Mathematics, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
Abstract:
Let be a metric continuum and let denote the space of subcontinua of with the Hausdorff metric. We settle a longstanding problem showing that if then . The special structure and properties of hereditarily indecomposable continua are applied in the proof.