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weakly confluent

A surjective mapping $f: X \to Y$ between compact spaces is said to be (see [59, Chapter 3 and 4, p. 12-28]) weakly confluent provided that for each subcontinuum Q of Y there is a component the set f-1(Q) which is mapped under f onto Q.

Janusz J. Charatonik, Pawel Krupski and Pavel Pyrih
2001-02-21