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Existence of quasi-arcs

Author(s): John M. Mackay
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 3975-3981.
MSC (2000): Primary 30C65; Secondary 54D05
Posted: June 5, 2008
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Abstract: 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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Additional Information:

John M. Mackay
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1109
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8283
Email: jmmackay@umich.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09444-6
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09444-6
Keywords: Quasi-arc, linearly connected, bounded turning.
Received by editor(s): October 17, 2007
Posted: June 5, 2008
Additional Notes: This research was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0701515.
Communicated by: Mario Bonk
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.


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