One-dimensional nonseparating plane continua with disjoint \(\epsilon\)- dense subcontinua (Q2639376): Difference between revisions

\textit{J. Krasinkiewicz} and \textit{P. Minc} [Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci., Sér. Sci. Math. Astron. Phys. 25, 283-289 (1977; Zbl 0354.54018)] showed that for any \(\lambda\)-dendroid X there is an \(\epsilon >0\) so that any two \(\epsilon\)-dense subcontinua of X must intersect. In this paper that result is extended to one-dimensional nonseparating plane triods, and this is used to show that any one-dimensional nonseparating plane continuum which, for each \(\epsilon >0\), has two disjoint \(\epsilon\)- dense subcontinua is either indecomposable or the union of two indecomposable continua. \textit{Knaster}, in private communication in 1972, asked whether each plane continuum which is the closure of a ray that limits on itself must contain an indecomposable continuum. \textit{D. Bellamy} and \textit{J. Krasinkiewicz} answered the question negatively in 1976 with a hereditarily decomposable example. In this paper it is shown that if such a continuum separates the plane into only finitely many components, then it must contain an indecomposable continuum, and if the continuum is one-dimensional, then it must be indecomposable.