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Jordan curves and arcs and related material such as the Schoenflies theorem in dimension two.

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Why are there no wild arcs in the plane?

One way to show all arcs are tame is to apply the Riemann mapping theorem to the complement of the arc on $S^2$. Caratheodory proved that whenever the complement of a simply-connected domain is locall …
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