Tangles and the Stone-Cech compactification of infinite graphs

2018/06/01 by Kurkofka, Jan, Pitz, Max
#05C63 #54D35 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #General Topology (math.GN)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.00220

Abstract

We show that the tangle space of a graph, which compactifies it, is a quotient of its Stone-Čech remainder obtained by contracting the connected components.

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