%0 Journal Article
%T Contractibility of curves
%A Janusz Charatonik
%J Le Matematiche
%D 1991
%I University of Catania
%X Results concerning contractibility of curves (equivalently: of dendroids) are collected and discussed in the paper. Interrelations tetween various conditions which are either sufficient or necessary for a curve to be contractible are studied.
%K Bend set
%K Continuum
%K Contractible
%K Curve
%K Dendroid
%K Fan
%K Homotopy
%K Pairwise smooth
%K Pointwise smooth
%K Q-point
%K R-continuum
%K Selectible
%K Smooth
%K Type N
%U http://www.dmi.unict.it/ojs/index.php/lematematiche/article/view/645