Sufficent Conditions for the preservation of Path-Connectedness in an arbitrary metric space

Abstract

It is proven that if $ (X,d) $ is an arbitrary metric space and $ U $ is a path-connected subset of $ X $ with $M:=\{x_i:\ i\in\{1,2,\dots,k\}\}\subset int(U) $, then the property of path-connectedness is also preserved in the resulting set $ U\setminus M, $ provided that the boundary of each open ball of X is a non-empty and path-connected set. Moreover, under appropriate conditions we extend the above result in the case where the set $ M $ is countably infinite. As a consequence these results maintain path-connectedness for domains with holes.