Unicoherent Space
Let
be a connected topological space. Then
is unicoherent provided that for any closed connected subsets
and
of
, if
, then
is connected.

An interval, say [0,1], is unicoherent, but a circle, say
{e^(itheta):theta in [0,2pi]} subset= C" src="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/equations/UnicoherentSpace/Inline8.gif" style="height:21px; width:154px" />, is not unicoherent. An interesting example of a unicoherent space is a ray winding down on a circle. Specifically, let
, where
{(1+1/(1+theta))e^(itheta):0<=theta<infty} subset= C" src="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/equations/UnicoherentSpace/Inline10.gif" style="height:23px; width:198px" />. Then the space
, illustrated above, is unicoherent.
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