Embedding planar compacta in planar continua with application: homotopic maps between planar Peano continua are characterized by the fundamental group homomorphism
arXiv:0902.1723
Abstract
A planar compactum with connected complement can be an embedded in a cellular continuum by attaching a null sequence of arcs. Two based maps f and g from a planar Peano continuum X to a planar set Y are homotopic iff f and g induce the same homomorphism between fundamental groups.
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