In 1940, O. G. Harrold showed that no arc can be the exactly 2-to-1 continuous image of a metric continuum, and in 1947 W. H. Gottschalk showed that no dendrite is a 2-to-1 image. In 2003 we show that no arc-connected treelike continuum is the 2-to-1 image of a continuum.
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author = {Jo Heath and Van C. Nall},
title = {No arc-connected treelike continuum is the 2-to-1 image of a continuum},
journal = {Fundamenta Mathematicae},
volume = {177},
year = {2003},
pages = {11-24},
zbl = {1081.54029},
language = {en},
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Jo Heath; Van C. Nall. No arc-connected treelike continuum is the 2-to-1 image of a continuum. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Tome 177 (2003) pp. 11-24. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-fm180-1-2/