Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We prove the following result announced by the second and third authors: Any homogeneous, metric $ANR$-continuum is a
$V_{G}^{n}$-continuum provided
${{\dim}_{G}}X\,=\,n\,\ge \,1$ and
${{\overset{\vee }{\mathop{H}}\,}^{n}}\left( X;\,G \right)\,\ne \,0$, where
$G$ is a principal ideal domain. This implies that any homogeneous
$n$-dimensional metric
$ANR$-continuum is a
${{V}^{n}}$-continuum in the sense of Alexandroff. We also prove that any finite-dimensional cyclic in dimension
$n$ homogeneous metric continuum
$X$, satisfying
${{\overset{\vee }{\mathop{H}}\,}^{n}}\left( X;\,G \right)\,\ne \,0$ for some group
$G$ and
$n\,\ge \,1$, cannot be separated by a compactum
$K$ with
${{\overset{\vee }{\mathop{H}}\,}^{n-1}}\left( K;\,G \right)\,=\,0$ and
${{\dim}_{G}}K\,\le \,n\,-\,1$. This provides a partial answer to a question of Kallipoliti–Papasoglu as to whether a two-dimensional homogeneous Peano continuum can be separated by arcs.
The first author was partially supported by NSERC Grant 257231-09. The third author was partially supported by NSERC Grant 261914-08.