Bourbaki

Exercise 7, § 6

General Topology, IX, p. 120

Bourbaki marks this one as harder than the rest.

a) Let JJ be the Polish space NN\mathbf{N}^\mathbf{N} (where N\mathbf{N} is endowed with the discrete topology), XX a metrizable space of countable type. Now prove that for every countable ordinal α\alpha, there exists a subset Gα⊂J×XG_\alpha \subset J \times X such that: 1o1^o Gα∈Gα(J×X)G_\alpha \in \mathfrak{G}_\alpha(J \times X) (Exercise 6); 2o2^o for every subset U∈Gα(X)U \in \mathfrak{G}_\alpha(X), there exists z∈Jz \in J such that Gα(z)=UG_\alpha(z) = U. One can proceed as follows, by transfinite induction: the spaces JJ and JNJ^\mathbf{N} being homeomorphic, let ff be a homeomorphism of JJ onto JNJ^\mathbf{N}, and for every integer nn, let fn=prn∘ff_n = \mathrm{pr}_n \circ f. If (An)(A_n) is a countable basis of XX, containing the empty set, one takes G0G_0 such that G0(z)=⋃nAfn(z)G_0(z) = \bigcup_n A_{f_n(z)} for every z∈Jz \in J. For every countable ordinal α\alpha, one takes Gα+1G_{\alpha+1} such that Gα+1(z)=⋂nGα(fn(z))G_{\alpha+1}(z) = \bigcap_n G_\alpha(f_n(z)) if α\alpha is pair, Gα+1(z)=⋃nGα(fn(z))G_{\alpha+1}(z) = \bigcup_n G_\alpha(f_n(z)) if α\alpha is odd. Finally, if α\alpha has no predecessor and if (λn)(\lambda_n) is a increasing sequence of ordinals such that α=sup⁡nλn\alpha = \sup_n \lambda_n, one takes GαG_\alpha such that Gα(z)=⋃nGλn(fn(z))G_\alpha(z) = \bigcup_n G_{\lambda_n}(f_n(z)). One will use the fact that fnf_n is continuous in JJ.

b) One takes in particular X=JX = J. Now prove that the set pr1(Gα∩Δ)\mathrm{pr}_1(G_\alpha \cap \Delta), where Δ\Delta is the diagonal of J×JJ \times J, belongs to Gα(J)\mathfrak{G}_\alpha(J), but not to Fα(J)\mathfrak{F}_\alpha(J) (reason by contradiction using aa).

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