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What is the Freudenthal compactification of a wildly punctured n-sphere?

Let $C$ be a compact and totally-disconnected subspace of the $n$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$, where $n\geq 2$. Question: Must the Freudenthal compactification of $\mathbb{S}^n \setminus C$ be homeomorphic ...
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Numbers associated with boundaries of manifolds

I don't know what name if any is attached to the numbers I'm about to describe. For a line segment, [a,b] the number is 1 if for any k in (a,b) and 2 if k=a or k=b. For a square, [a,b] ...
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