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- From: tao@fine.princeton.edu (Terry Tao)
- Subject: Re: proof wanted 2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.210012.18587@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <ARA.93Jan10172314@camelot.ai.mit.edu> <1iqcp7INNoph@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> <1993Jan11.030012.26208@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:00:12 GMT
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- >>In article <ARA.93Jan10172314@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
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- >>>
- >>>True or false: A metric space (X,d) is locally compact if and only if
- >>>for every point p of X and every closed subset Y of X, there is a
- >>>point q of Y such that d(p,q) = inf {d(p,r) | r in Y}.
- >>>
- >>
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- False. A friend suggested the following counter example:
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- Let X be the space of infinitely many copies of {0} union {1/n: n = 1, 2,
- ...} with all the 0's glued together. the metric is the natural one
- between two points on the same copy, or through 0 on different copies. The
- space is not locally compact at 0, yet every closed set and every point has
- a point of closest approach. Basically the reason for this is that the
- only problematic point is 0, and the fact that Y is closed then guarantees
- that 0 is in Y.
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- Terry
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