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A short proof of Toruńczyk’s characterization theorems. (English) Zbl 1357.57051
Summary: We present short proofs of H. Toruńczyk’s [Fundam. Math. 106, 31–40 (1980; Zbl 0346.57004), ibid. 111, 247–262 (1981; Zbl 0468.57015) and ibid. 125, 89–93 (1985; Zbl 0582.57011)] well-known characterization theorems of the Hilbert cube and Hilbert space, respectively.
##### MSC:
 57N20 Topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds
##### Keywords:
Hilbert cube; Hilbert space; resolution
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