EN The ε-boundary of a set A ⊆ R2 is the set p ∈ R2: ρ (p, A) = ε, where ρ is the Euclidean distance. We prove that if A, B ⊆ R2 are nonempty, connected sets, A is bounded, and 00 and A ⊆ R2 is a nonempty, bounded, connected set, then the boundary of each component of p ∈ R2: ρ (p, A) > ε is a simple closed curve. Another corollary of this theorem is that the ε-boundary of a nonempty, bounded, connected set A ⊆ R2 contains a simple closed curve bounding the domain that contains the open ε-neighbourhood of A. In all these statements the connectivity condition can be significantly weakened. We also show that, for all ε>0, the ε-boundary of a nonempty, bounded set A ⊆ R2 contains a simple closed curve.
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