Closed subsets of Euclidean spaces contained in hereditarily indecomposable continua (Q906506): Difference between revisions

By a continuum, we mean a nontrivial connected and compact metric space. A continuum is decomposable if it is the union of two proper subcontinua; otherwise it is indecomposable. A continuum \(A\) is hereditarily indecomposable if each subcontinuum of \(A\) is indecomposable. One of the conjectures of \textit{D. P. Bellamy} contained in [``Questions in and out of context'', in: \textit{E. Pearl} (ed.), Open problems in topology. II. Amsterdam: Elsevier. xii, 763 p. (2007; Zbl 1158.54300)] expresses his belief that for every compact set \(A\) in a Euclidean space \(\mathbb R^n\) there exists a hereditarily indecomposable continuum \(M\) in \(\mathbb R^n+1\) such that \(A\) is a subset of \(M\), provided every component of \(A\) is a hereditarily indecomposable continuum. In the paper under review, the author assumes the set \(A\) to be simply connected, which allows for the set \(M\) to be a subset of \(\mathbb R^n\), and proves Bellamy's conjecture for \(n>2\).