Sunday, 27 January 2008

gn.general topology - Unusual Space-Filling Curve

Around 1998, I encountered a (forgotten) reference to a particularly strange space-filling curve.



Consider a foliation as a collection of continuous nonintersecting curves that start at (0,0) and end at (1,1) and collectively fill the unit square, such as the graphs of functions ft(x) = xt where t >=0. Supposedly there exists a continuous curve G that starts at (1,0), ends at (0,1), fills the unit square, and crosses each ft curve only once.



This initially sounds even more impossible than the Cantor curve. But intuitively a space-filling curve could trace back and forth over the ft curves and only cross at the corners (0,0) and (1,1). Can someone please explain a construction of such a space-filling curve?

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