Proof. Let be the full -subcategory of embeddings from oriented intervals that surject onto the endpoints. That is, consists of oriented embeddings among 1-manifolds with boundary of the form , for . To show the inclusion is final, by Quillenβs Theorem A, we can show the under -category has a contractible classifying space for every finite disjoint union of subintervals . This is immediate, because has an initial object, which is a disjoint union of with connected open neighborhoods of the endpoints not contained in .
Lastly, the result follows because there is an equivalence . On objects this is given by assigning to the set connected components of the complement together with the linear order inherited from that of . That this assignment defines a functor is routine. That this functor is an equivalence of -categories follows because each comopnent of the space of morphisms of is contractible.
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