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FormalConjecturesForMathlib.Topology.AbsoluteNeighborhoodRetract

A topological space X is an absolute neighborhood retract (ANR) if, whenever it is embedded as a closed subspace of a normal space Y, there exists a continuous retraction from some open neighborhood of X in Y onto X.

More precisely, for every closed embedding e : X → Y into a normal space Y, there exist an open set U ⊆ Y containing the image of e and a continuous map r : Y → X defined on U such that r ∘ e = id.

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