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Bing's dogbone space and curtis' conjecture Hutchings, John Edward

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Bing's dogbone space D is an upper semi continuous decomposition space of E³ which fails to be E³ although the associated decomposition consists only of points and tame arcs. It has proved difficult to find topological properties of D which distinguish it from E³. In this paper, we prove a conjecture of Morton Curtis in 1961 that certain points of D fail to possess small simply connected neighbourhoods.

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Title
Bing's dogbone space and curtis' conjecture
Creator
Hutchings, John Edward
Publisher
University of British Columbia
Date Issued
1973
Description
Bing's dogbone space D is an upper semi continuous decomposition space of E³ which fails to be E³ although the associated decomposition consists only of points and tame arcs. It has proved difficult to find topological properties of D which distinguish it from E³. In this paper, we prove a conjecture of Morton Curtis in 1961 that certain points of D fail to possess small simply connected neighbourhoods.
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Thesis/Dissertation
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2011-03-04
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
DOI
10.14288/1.0080386
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32041
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Program
Mathematics
Affiliation
Science, Faculty of; Mathematics, Department of
Degree Grantor
University of British Columbia
Campus
UBCV
Scholarly Level
Graduate
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