Shrinking without doing much at all
\textit{R. H. Bing} [Ann. Math. (2) 56, 354--362 (1952; Zbl 0049.40401)] proved that identifying two Alexander horned balls by the identity map gives a topological three-sphere, \(\mathbb S^3\). Then the involution exchanging the two balls gives a wild involution of \(\mathbb S^3\).\N\NTo show Bing's example is a topological three-sphere, one shows that it can be viewed as a decomposition space of \(\mathbb S^3\) and then constructs a pseudo-isotopy of \(\mathbb S^3\) which shrinks the elements of the decomposition to points. The shrink amounts to figuring out a strategy for stretching, twisting, bending and/or rotating the nested neighborhoods of the decomposition elements. Here the authors present a construction for the shrink where not only the lengths of the neighborhoods of the decomposition elements are nearly preserved, but the ``rotations are also made arbitrarily small and decay towards zero.
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