Recognizing indecomposable subcontinua of surfaces from their complements

MaRDI QIDQ3633273zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Clinton Curry

Publication date 18 June 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4009

zbMATH Keywords

2-indecomposable continuumclosed surface, complementary domaincomposantcrosscutdecomposable continuumdouble-pass conditionindecomposable continuumshieldedunshielded

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continua and generalizations (54F15)

Abstract: We prove two theorems which allow one to recognize indecomposable subcontinua of closed surfaces without boundary. If $X$ is a subcontinuum of a closed surface $S$, we call the components of $SsetminusX$ the complementary domains of $X$. We prove that a continuum is either indecomposable or the union of two indecomposable continua whenever it has a sequence of distinct complementary domains whose boundaries limit to the continuum in the Hausdorff metric. We define a slightly stronger condition on the complementary domains of a continuum, called the double-pass condition, which we conjecture is equivalent to indecomposability of the continuum. We prove that this is so for continua which are not the boundary of one of their complementary domains.

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