We compute the generator rank of a subhomogeneous $C^*\!$-algebra in terms of the covering dimension of the pieces of its primitive ideal space corresponding to irreducible representations of a fixed dimension. We deduce that every $\mathcal {Z}$-stable approximately subhomogeneous algebra has generator rank one, which means that a generic element in such an algebra is a generator.

This leads to a strong solution of the generator problem for classifiable, simple, nuclear $C^*\!$-algebras: a generic element in each such algebra is a generator. Examples of Villadsen show that this is not the case for all separable, simple, nuclear $C^*\!$-algebras.

In [12], John Stillwell wrote, ‘finding the exact strength of the Brouwer invariance theorems seems to me one of the most interesting open problems in reverse mathematics.’ In this article, we solve Stillwell’s problem by showing that (some forms of) the Brouwer invariance theorems are equivalent to the weak König’s lemma over the base system ${\sf RCA}_0$ . In particular, there exists an explicit algorithm which, whenever the weak König’s lemma is false, constructs a topological embedding of $\mathbb {R}^4$ into $\mathbb {R}^3$ .

Let E → B be a fibre bundle and let Eʹ → B be a vector bundle. Let G be a compact Lie group acting fibre preservingly and freely on both E and Eʹ – 0, where 0 is the zero section of Eʹ → B. Let f : E → Eʹ be a fibre-preserving G-equivariant map and let Zf = {x ∈ E | f(x) = 0} be the zero set of f. In this paper we give a lower bound for the cohomological dimension of the zero set Zf when a fibre of E → B is a real Stiefel manifold with a free ℤ/2-action or a complex Stiefel manifold with a free 𝕊1-action. This generalizes a well-known result of Dold for sphere bundles equipped with free involutions.

Consider the wreath product $H\,\wr \,G$, where $H\,\ne \,1$ is finite and $G$ is finitely generated. We show that the Assouad–Nagata dimension ${{\dim}_{AN}}\left( H\,\wr \,G \right)$ of $H\,\wr \,G$ depends on the growth of $G$ as follows: if the growth of $G$ is not bounded by a linear function, then ${{\dim}_{AN}}\left( H\,\wr \,G \right)\,=\,\infty$; otherwise ${{\dim}_{AN}}\left( H\,\wr \,G \right)\,=\,{{\dim}_{AN}}\left( G \right)\,\le \,1$.

We characterize maps between $n$-dimensional Nöbeling manifolds that can be approximated by homeomorphisms.

Let $f:X\to Y$ be a $\sigma$-perfect $k$-dimensional surjective map of metrizable spaces such that dim $Y\le m$. It is shown that for every positive integer $p$ with $p\le m+k+1$ there exists a dense ${{G}_{\delta }}-\text{subset}\,\mathcal{H}\left( k,m,p \right)$ of $C\left( X,{{\mathbb{I}}^{k+p}} \right)$ with the source limitation topology such that each fiber of $f\Delta g$, $g\in \mathcal{H}\left( k,m,p \right)$, contains at most $\max \left\{ k+m-p+2,1 \right\}$ points. This result provides a proof the following conjectures of S. Bogatyi, V. Fedorchuk and J. van Mill. Let $f:X\to Y$ be a $k$-dimensional map between compact metric spaces with dim $Y\le m$. Then: (1) there exists a map $h:X\to {{\mathbb{I}}^{m+2k}}$ such that $f\Delta h:\,X\to Y\times {{\mathbb{I}}^{m+2k}}$ is 2-to-one provided $k\ge 1$; (2) there exists a map $h:X\to {{\mathbb{I}}^{m+k+1}}$ such that $f\Delta h:X\to Y\times {{\mathbb{I}}^{m+k+1}}$ is $\left( k+1 \right)$-to-one.

We show that every compactum has cohomological dimension 1 with respect to a finitely generated nilpotent group $G$ whenever it has cohomological dimension 1 with respect to the abelianization of $G$. This is applied to the extension theory to obtain a cohomological dimension theory condition for a finite-dimensional compactum $X$ for extendability of every map from a closed subset of $X$ into a nilpotent $\text{CW}$-complex $M$ with finitely generated homotopy groups over all of $X$.

Applying the Sullivan conjecture we construct compacta of certain cohomological and extensional dimensions.