13. Other planar objects
Definition (dendroid). A dendroid (term due to Knaster (1961)) is a locally connected Peano continuum.
Dendroids are a special class of tree-like topological spaces.
Theorem (Borsuk, 1954). Every continuous application of a dendroid in itself has a fixed point.
Definition (dendrite). A dendrite (dendrite) (figure
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) is a locally connected dendroid or equivalently a locally connected continuum containing no Jordan curve (i.e. a closed and simple curve) (p. 300 of
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Other planar objects