The locally connected compact metric spaces embeddable in the plane

Carsten Thomassen

doi:10.1007/s00493-004-0042-7

The locally connected compact metric spaces embeddable in the plane

Carsten Thomassen

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We prove that a 2-connected, locally connected, compact topological space M is homeomorphic to a subset of the 2-sphere if and only if M is metrizable and contains none of the Kuratowski graphs K-5 and K-3,K-3.

Original language	English
Journal	Combinatorica
Volume	24
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	699-718
ISSN	0209-9683
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-004-0042-7
Publication status	Published - 2004

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