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We now want to show that all polygons are situated in the plane in exactly the same way, topologically. That is, if J and J’ are polygons in R 2, then there is a homeomorphism f: R 2↔R 2 such that f(J) = J’. For this, we need some preliminary results.
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Moise, E.E. (1977). The Schönflies theorem for polygons in R 2 . In: Geometric Topology in Dimensions 2 and 3. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 47. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9906-6_4
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