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most citedRecursively squeezable sets are squeezable

33 citations · 33 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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math.MG2023

A Pythagorean Theorem for Volume

Fredric D. Ancel

Lebesgue measurable subsets A and B of parallel or identical k-dimensional affine subspaces of Euclidean n-space E^n satisfy The Product Formula for Volume: Vol_k(A)Vol_k(B) = \sum…

math.GT2022

Semi-isotopic knots

Fredric D. Ancel

A is a possibly wild simple closed curve in . A knot is to a knot if there is an annulus in such that $A\…

math.GN2021

On the isometrization of groups of homeomorphisms

Fredric D. Ancel

Let be a group of homeomorphisms of a topological space . is if there exists a -invariant (proper) gauge structure on . is…

math.GT2020★ 33 cited

Recursively squeezable sets are squeezable

Fredric D. Ancel

In work by Freedman [F2] and Freedman-Quinn [FQ] on the topology of 4-manifolds, null decompositions whose non-singleton elements are, in the terminology of [MOR], recursively star…

math.GT2019

Most unexposed taut one-relator presentation 2-complexes are finitely unsplittable

Fredric D. Ancel, Pete Sparks

The main result of this article is that among the family of one-relator presentation 2-complexes that might be expected to be finitely unsplittable (not the union of two proper sub…

math.GT2018

Generalized dunce hats are not splittable

Fredric Ancel, Pete Sparks

A \emph{generalized dunce hat} is a 2-dimensional polyhedron created by attaching the boundary of a disk to a circle via a map with the property that th…

math.GN2016

On homogeneous locally conical spaces

Fredric D. Ancel, David P. Bellamy

The main result of this article is: THEOREM. Every homogeneous locally conical connected separable metric space that is not a -manifold is strongly -homogeneous for each $n \…

math.GN2016

Is a monotone union of contractible open sets contractible?

Fredric D. Ancel, Robert D. Edwards

This paper presents some partial answers to the following question. QUESTION. If a normal space X is the union of an increasing sequence of open sets U(1), U(2), U(3) ... such that…