Take e.g. two disjoint nondegenerate compact continua
A and
B in the complex plane
C with connected complements and pick a simple arc γ in the complex sphere
C disjoint from
A ∪
B, which we call a pasting arc for
A and
B. Construct a covering Riemann surface
Cγ over
C by pasting two copies of
C$¥backslash$γ crosswise along γ. We embed
A in one sheet and
B in another sheet of two sheets of
Cγ which are copies of
C$¥backslash$γ so that
Cγ$¥backslash$
A ∪
B is understood as being obtained by pasting (
C$¥backslash$
A)$¥backslash$γ with (
C$¥backslash$
B)$¥backslash$γ crosswise along γ. In the comparison of the variational 2 capacity cap(
A,
Cγ$¥backslash$
B) of the compact set
A considered in the open set
Cγ$¥backslash$
B with the corresponding cap(
A,
C$¥backslash$
B), we say that the pasting arc γ for
A and
B is subcritical, critical, or supercritical according as cap(
A,
Cγ$¥backslash$
B) is less than, equal to, or greater than cap(
A,
C$¥backslash$
B), respectively. We have shown in our former paper [4] the existence of pasting arc γ of any one of the above three types but that of supercritical and critical type was only shown under the additional requirment on
A and
B that
A and
B are symmetric about a common straight line simultaneously. The purpose of the present paper is to show that in the above mentioned result the additional symmetry assumption is redundant: we will show the existence of supercritical and hence of critical arc γ starting from an arbitrarily given point in
C$¥backslash$
A ∪
B for any general admissible pair of
A and
B without any further requirment whatsoever.
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