Exercise 7, § 6
General Topology, IX, p. 120
Bourbaki marks this one as harder than the rest.
a) Let be the Polish space (where is endowed with the discrete topology), a metrizable space of countable type. Now prove that for every countable ordinal , there exists a subset such that: (Exercise 6); for every subset , there exists such that . One can proceed as follows, by transfinite induction: the spaces and being homeomorphic, let be a homeomorphism of onto , and for every integer , let . If is a countable basis of , containing the empty set, one takes such that for every . For every countable ordinal , one takes such that if is pair, if is odd. Finally, if has no predecessor and if is a increasing sequence of ordinals such that , one takes such that . One will use the fact that is continuous in .
b) One takes in particular . Now prove that the set , where is the diagonal of , belongs to , but not to (reason by contradiction using ).
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