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Ln Sets and the Closures of Open Connected Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Nick M. Stavrakas
Nick M. Stavrakas*
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
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F. A. Valentine in [4] proved the following two theorems.

THEOREM 1. Let S be a closed connected subset of Rd which has at most n points of local nonconvexity. Then S is an Ln+i set.

THEOREM 2. Let S be a closed connected subset of Rd whose points of local nonconvexity are decomposable into n closed convex sets. Then S is an L2n+i set.

These results have been extended by a number of authors, but always with stronger hypothesis. (See [1] and [2].) Using a minimal arc technique, new pr∞fs of Theorems 1 and 2 were given in [3].

Valentine remarks in [4] that Theorem 2 might be improved in the case that 5 is the closure of an open connected set. The goal of this paper is to give such an improvement for sets satisfying a particular local connectivity property.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1975 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

References

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