Dendrites and symmetric products

Gerardo Acosta, Rodrigo Hernández-Gutiérrez, Verónica Martínez-de-la-Vega

For a given continuum $X$ and a natural number $n,$ we consider the hyperspace $F_n(X)$ of all nonempty subsets of $X$ with at most $n$ points, metrized by the Hausdorff metric. In…