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Sam Nead
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"Thickening" an arc on a 2-manifold

What is the argument for the fact that each arc in the interior of a 2-manifold can be "thickend" to obtain a 2-cell containing the arc in its interior and being disjoint from any preassigned compact set in the complement of the arc? Thanks in advance!