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A property of compact, connected, laminated subsets of manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2002

JOHN N. MATHER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA (e-mail: [email protected])

Abstract

Let X be a compact, connected subset of a smooth manifold. Suppose that X admits a codimension d lamination, d\ge 2. Let x,y\in X and \epsilon>0. There exists a sequence x=x_0,\dotsc,x_k=y in X such that the sum of the dth powers of the distances between successive points is less than \epsilon. We discuss two proposed applications of this result.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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