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A hereditarily-indecomposable snake-like continuum which contains more than one point.


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One speaks of "the" pseudo-arc, since any two are homeomorphic [a2]. Like the arc , the pseudo-arc is homeomorphic to each of its non-degenerate subcontinua [a7]. Yet, like the circle, it is homogeneous [a1]. Its unique feature — necessarily unique — is that "almost-all continua are pseudo-arcs" ; more precisely, in the hyperspace of subcontinua of an -cell for , the pseudo-arcs form a residual set [a3]. All non-degenerate homogeneous snake-like continua are pseudo-arcs [a4]. Simpler proofs of the fundamental properties, and some generalizations, are developed in [a5], [a6], [a8].

References

[a1] R.H. Bing, "A homogeneous indecomposable plane continuum" Duke Math. J. , 15 (1948) pp. 729–742
[a2] R.H. Bing, "On snake-like continua" Duke Math. J. , 18 (1951) pp. 853–863
[a3] R.H. Bing, "Concerning hereditarily indecomposable continua" Pacific J. Math. , 1 (1951) pp. 43–51
[a4] R.H. Bing, "Each homogeneous nondegenerate chainable continuum is a pseudo-arc" Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. , 10 (1959) pp. 345–346
[a5] J. Krasinkiewicz, "Mapping properties of hereditarily indecomposable continua" Houston J. Math. , 8 (1982) pp. 507–516
[a6] J. Krasinkiewicz, P. Minc, "Mappings onto indecomposable continua" Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. , 25 (1977) pp. 675–680
[a7] E.E. Moïse, "An indecomposable plane continuum which is homeomorphic to each of its non-degenerate subcontinua" Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. , 63 (1948) pp. 581–594
[a8] L. Oversteegen, E. Tymchatyn, "On hereditarily indecomposable compacta" H. Toruńczyk (ed.) S. Jackowski (ed.) S. Spiez (ed.) , Geometric & Algebraic Topology , Banach Center Publ. , 18 , PWN (1986) pp. 407–417
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Pseudo-arc. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Pseudo-arc&oldid=31625
This article was adapted from an original article by M.I. Voitsekhovskii (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article