Contractible open manifolds which embed in no compact, locally connected and locally 1–connected metric space

On planarity of compact, locally connected, metric spaces

Thomassen [Combinatorica 24 (2004), 699–718] proved that a 2–connected, compact, locally connected metric space is homeomorphic to a subset of the sphere if and only if it does not contain K5 or K3,3. The “thumbtack space” consisting of a disc plus an arc attaching just at the centre of the disc shows the assumption of 2–connectedness cannot be dropped. In this work, we introduce “generalized t...

Every Monotone Open 2-homogeneous Metric Continuum Is Locally Connected

In [16, Theorem 3.12, p. 397], Ungar answered a question of Burgess [2] by showing that every 2-homogeneous metric continuum is locally connected. A short, elementary and elegant proof of this result has been given by Whittington [17] who has omitted a powerful result of Effros (viz. Theorem 2.1 of [4, p. 39]) used by Ungar. It is observed in this note that Whittington's proof can be applied to...

Contractible Edges in 2-Connected Locally Finite Graphs

In this paper, we prove that every contraction-critical 2-connected infinite graph has no vertex of finite degree and contains uncountably many ends. Then, by investigating the distribution of contractible edges in a 2-connected locally finite infinite graph G, we show that the closure of the subgraph induced by all the contractible edges in the Freudenthal compactification of G is 2-arc-connec...

On Locally Lipschitz Locally Compact Transformation Groups of Manifolds

In this paper we show that a “locally Lipschitz” locally compact transformation group acting continuously and effectively on a connected paracompact locally Euclidean topological manifold is a Lie group. This is a contribution to the proof of the Hilbert-Smith conjecture. It generalizes the classical Bochner-Montgomery-Kuranishi Theorem[1, 9] and also the Repovš-Ščepin Theorem [17] which holds ...

Contractible Open 3-manifolds Which Non-trivially Cover Only Non-compact 3-manifolds