True trees are dense (Q742834): Difference between revisions

The author shows that any continuum in the plane can be approximated by the critical points of a polynomial with only two critical values. More precisely, for any compact, connected set \(K\) in the complex plane \(\mathbb C\) and any \(\epsilon>0\) there is a polynomial \(p\) with critical values exactly \(\pm 1\) so that \(T = p^{-1}([1, 1])\) approximates \(K\) to within \(\epsilon\) in the Hausdorff metric.