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Continuum Many Planar Embeddings of the Knaster Accordion

General Topology 2022-03-16 v3

Abstract

Anusic, Bruin, and Cinc have asked which hereditarily decomposable chainable continua (HDCC) have uncountably many mutually inequivalent planar embeddings. It was noted, as per the embedding technique of John C. Mayer with the sin(1/x)\sin(1/x)-curve, that any HDCC which is the compactification of a ray with an arc likely has this property. Here, we show two methods for constructing c\mathfrak{c}-many mutually inequivalent planar embeddings of the classic Knaster VΛV \Lambda-continuum, KK, also referred to as the Knaster accordion. The first of these two methods produces c\mathfrak{c}-many planar embeddings of KK, all of whose images have a different set of accessible points from the image of the standard embedding of KK, while the second method produces c\mathfrak{c}-many embeddings of KK, each of which preserve the accessibility of all points in the standard embedding.

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@article{arxiv.2203.03129,
  title  = {Continuum Many Planar Embeddings of the Knaster Accordion},
  author = {Joseph S. Ozbolt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03129},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

This paper comprises the results of the author's dissertation, written under the direction of Piotr Minc and presented to the faculty of Auburn University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020