Cantor sets in $S^ 3$ with simply connected complements (Q1084705)

scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3980030

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Cantor sets in $S^ 3$ with simply connected complements (English)

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Topology and its Applications

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1986

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The author gives a new example of a wild Cantor set in $S^ 3$ with simply connected complement; it is ''defined by'' handlebodies of genus 2 and is simpler than the examples known previously. The author also gives two characterizations of tame Cantor sets: a Cantor set C in $S^ 3$ is tame if and only if it satisfies at least one of the conditions: (a) every unknotted simple closed curve in $S^ 3-C$ lies in the interior of a 3-disk in $S^ 3-C$, (b) $\pi_ 1(S^ 3-C-K)$ is finitely generated for each unknotted simple closed curve K in $S^ 3-C$.

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wild Cantor set in $S^ 3$ with simply connected complement

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tame Cantor sets

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