Independence for Sets of Topological Spheres
Lewis Pakula, Sol Schwartzman · Canadian Mathematical Bulletin · 1991
Abstract Consider a collection of topological spheres in Euclidean space whose intersections are essentially topological spheres. We find a bound for the number of components of the complement of their union and discuss conditions for the bound to be achieved. This is used to give a necessary condition for independence of these sets. A related conjecture of Griinbaum on compact convex sets is discussed.