Every countable compact subset of Sn is tame

Abstract

We prove that any two countable, compact, subsets of Sn, n≥ 2 that are homeomorphic also have homeomorphic complements. Thus any wild subspace like the classical construction of Antoine must contain a Cantor set.

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