Continua

HOWARD COOK is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Houston, Texas. A member of the American Mathematical Society, Professor Cook received the Ph.D. degree (1962) from the University of Texas, Austin. W. T. Ingram is a Professor of Mathematics and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Missouri—Rolla. A member of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, Professor Ingram received the Ph.D. degree (1964) from Auburn University, Alabama. K. T. Kuperberg is a Professor of Mathematics at Auburn University, Alabama. A member of the American Mathematical Society, among others, Professor Kuperberg received the Ph.D. degree (1974) from Rice University, Houston, Texas. Andrew Lelek is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Houston, Texas. A member of the American Mathematical Society, Professor Lelek received the Ph.D. degree (1959) from the University of Wroclaw, Poland. . Piotr Minc is a Professor of Mathematics at Auburn University, Alabama. A member of the American Mathematical Society, Professor Minc received the Ph.D. degree (1974) from Warsaw University, Poland.

Preface -- Part I. Expository and Survey Papers -- 1. Matchbox manifolds /byJan M. Aarts and Lex G. Oversteegen -- 2. Rotation sets for invariant continua /by Kathleen T. Alligood -- 3. The fixed point property in dimension one /by David P. Bellamy -- 4. Menger manifolds /byAlex Chigogidze, Kazuhiro Kawamura and E. D. Tymchatyn -- 5. Exactly fc-to-1 functions: from pathological functions with finitely many discontinuities to well-behaved covering maps /by Jo W. Heath -- 6. A brief history of indecomposable continua /by Judy A. Kennedy -- 7. Spans of continua and their applications /by Andrew Lelek and Thelma West -- 8. Complex dynamics and continuum theory /by John C. Mayer -- 9. Continua on which 2-to-l maps induce continuous involutions /by Jerzy Mioduszewski -- Part II. Research Papers -- 10. Endpoints of inverse limit spaces and dynamics /by Marcy Barge and Joe Martin -- 11. The essential span of simple closed curves /by Marcy Barge and Richard Swanson -- 12. Invertibility of the pseudo-arc /by David P. Bellamy -- 13. Inverse limit spaces, periodic points, and arcs /by Louis Block and Shannon Schumann -- 14. A symbolic representation of inverse limit spaces for a class of unimodal maps /by Karen M. Bracks and Beverly Diamond -- 15. On the homotopic structure of dynamical systems containing global attractors /by Bemd Gunther -- 16. Semi-aposyndesis and continuum chainability /by Charles L. Hagopian and Lex G. Oversteegen -- 17. Inverse limits on [0,1] using tent maps and certain other piecewise linear bonding maps /by W. T. Ingram -- 18. On composants of indecomposable subcontinua of surfaces /by Zbigniew Kamo -- 19. Minimal sets and chaos in the sense of Devaney on continuum-wise expansive homeomorphisms /by Hisao Kato -- 20. Characterizations of Menger manifolds and Hilbert cube manifolds in terms of partitions /by Kazuhiro Kawamura -- 21. Homology separation and 2-homogeneity /by KrystynaKuperberg, Wlodzimierz Kuperberg and William R. R. Transue -- 22. Solenoids and bihomogeneity /by Piotr Minc -- 23. Openly homogeneous continua in 2-manifolds: A generalization of a theorem of Bing /by Janusz R. Prajs -- 24. A continuous decomposition of the Sierpinski curve /by Carl R. Seaquist -- 25. A wild fc-dimensional Menger compactum in R2k+1, all cell-like subsets of which are cellular /by Richard B. Sher -- 26. An extension of Jakobsche’s construction of n-homogeneous continua to the nonorientable case /by Paul R. Stallings -- Part III. The Houston Problem Book -- 27. A list of problems known as Houston Problem Book /by Howard Cook, W. T. Ingram and Andrew Lelek -- Index.