Vol. 36, No. 2, 1971

Download this article
Download this article. For screen
For printing
Recent Issues
Vol. 331: 1
Vol. 330: 1  2
Vol. 329: 1  2
Vol. 328: 1  2
Vol. 327: 1  2
Vol. 326: 1  2
Vol. 325: 1  2
Vol. 324: 1  2
Online Archive
Volume:
Issue:
     
The Journal
About the journal
Ethics and policies
Peer-review process
 
Submission guidelines
Submission form
Editorial board
Officers
 
Subscriptions
 
ISSN 1945-5844 (electronic)
ISSN 0030-8730 (print)
 
Special Issues
Author index
To appear
 
Other MSP journals
An n-arc theorem for Peano spaces

J. H. V. Hunt

Vol. 36 (1971), No. 2, 351–356
Abstract

G. T. Whyburn gave an elementary inductive proof of the n-arc theorem for Peano spaces, which had originally been proved by G. Nobeling and K. Menger. In the course of doing this he gave a necessary and sufficient condition for there to be n disjoint arcs joining two disjoint closed sets A and B in a Peano space S. In this paper we split the set A into n disjoint closed subsets A1,A2,,An and give a necessary and sufficient condition for there to be n disjoint arcs joining A1 A2 An and B in S, exactly one arc meeting each Ai. Our proof uses the inductive technique that Whyburn introduced.

Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 54.55
Milestones
Received: 26 August 1970
Published: 1 February 1971
Authors
J. H. V. Hunt