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absolute retract

An absolute retract is a space X$ such that if X$ is embedded as a closed subset X'$ of a space Y$, then X'$ is a retract of Y$.
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Janusz J. Charatonik, Pawel Krupski and Pavel Pyrih
2001-11-30