It is shown that the homeomorphism groups of the (generalized) Sierpiński carpet and the universal Menger continua are not zero-dimensional. These results were corollaries to a 1966 theorem of Brechner. New proofs were needed because we also show that Brechner’s proof is inadequate. The method by which we obtain our results, the construction of closed imbeddings of complete Erdős space in the h...

A continuum K in a space X is said to be semi-terminal if at least one out of every two disjoint continua in X intersecting K is contained in K. Based on this concept, new structural results on Kelley continua are obtained. In particular, two decomposition theorems for Kelley continua are presented. One of these theorems is an improved version of the aposyndetic decomposition theorem for Kelley...

One-dimensional and two-dimensional continua belong to the basic notions of settheoretical topology and represent a subfield of the theory of dimensions developed by P. Urysohn and K. Menger. In this paper basic definitions and properties of grid continua in R2 and R3 are summarised. Particularly, simple one-dimensional grid continua in R2 and in R3, and simple closed two-dimensional grid conti...

It is known that no dendrite (Gottschalk 1947) and no hereditarily indecomposable tree-like continuum (J. Heath 1991) can be the image of a continuum under an exactly 2-to-1 (continuous) map. This paper enlarges the class of tree-like continua satisfying this property, namely to include those tree-like continua whose nondegenerate proper subcontinua are arcs. This includes all Knaster continua ...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705 2 Basic concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705 3 The Jordan Curve Theorem and the concept of a curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 4 Local connectedness; plane continua.. . . . . ....

Given a generalized continuum $X$, let $\operatorname{CL}_{{\rm F}}(X)$ and $\operatorname{C}(X)$ denote its hyperspaces of (non-empty) closed subsets subcontinua, respectively, with the Fell topology ($=$ Vietoris on $\operatorname{C}(X)