Connected but not path-connected subspaces of infinite graphs (Q949760): Difference between revisions

\textit{R.~Diestel} and \textit{D.~Kühn} [''Topological paths, cycles and spanning trees in infinite graphs, '' Eur. J. Comb. 25, 835-862 (2004; Zbl 1050.05071)] have shown that every closed connected subspace of the Freudenthal compactification \(| G| \) of a locally finite graph \(G\) is path-connected, and expressed the belief that every connected subspace of \(| G| \) is path-connected. By presenting a counterexample the author disproves this conjecture. He also shows that a connected subspace \(X\) of \(G\) is path-connected unless it satisfies the following assertions: {\parindent=5mm \begin{itemize}\item[--]\(X\) has uncountably many path-components each of which consists of one end only; \item[--]\(X\) has infinitely many path-components that contain a vertex; and \item[--]every path-component of \(X\) contains an end. \end{itemize}}