3-connected Planar Spaces Uniquely Embed in the Sphere

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  • R. BRUCE RICHTER
  • CARSTEN THOMASSEN
چکیده

We characterize those locally connected subsets of the sphere that have a unique embedding in the sphere — i.e., those for which every homeomorphism of the subset to itself extends to a homeomorphism of the sphere. This implies that if Ḡ is the closure of an embedding of a 3-connected graph in the sphere such that every 1-way infinite path in G has a unique accumulation point in Ḡ, then Ḡ has a unique embedding in the sphere. In particular, the standard (or Freudenthal) compactification of a 3-connected planar graph embeds uniquely in the sphere.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002