Surgery on continua #
This file develops the continuum-surgery argument for countably many open convex holes.
A nonempty compact set in a metric space contains two points realizing its extended diameter.
The two-segment bridge through an interior point of a convex hole.
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A one-hole surgery preserves a continuum's diameter and changes it only inside the hole.
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A continuum can be surgically changed inside one open convex hole while preserving a diameter-realizing pair. The bridge inserted in the hole has length at most the hole diameter, up to an arbitrarily small error.
Countably many disjoint open convex holes can be bypassed without changing a diameter-realizing pair, at a total length cost bounded by their diameters.
The continuum-surgery theorem for a countable index type.
A countable family of open holes has a pairwise-disjoint open convex enlargement whose total diameter is no larger.
Surgery for arbitrary countably many open holes. The part not inherited from the old continuum outside the holes has measure strictly smaller than the preserved diameter.