Swiss cheese (mathematics)

For other uses, see Swiss cheese (disambiguation).

In mathematics, a Swiss cheese is a compact subset of the complex plane obtained by removing from a closed disc some countable union of open discs. More generally, a Swiss cheese may be all or part of Euclidean space Rn or of an even more complicated manifold with "holes" in it.

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