Existence of quasi-arcs

Existence of quasi-arcs
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 3975-3981 Request permission

We show that doubling, linearly connected metric spaces are quasi-arc connected. This gives a new and short proof of a theorem of Tukia.

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