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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Topology of the long integers and the long line
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- References: <24341@galaxy.ucr.edu> <1992Dec18.101409.4666@black.ox.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.103233.723@black.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:21:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.103233.723@black.ox.ac.uk> mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) writes:
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- .....................
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- >As John points out, the `more than this' is that the map has to
- >be eventually constant. Somebody sketched the proof for me once,
- >but I can't remember how it goes. Anyone?
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- The "easy" way to see this is to start with the fact that the intersection
- of any sequence of unbounded closed subsets of either must contain an
- unbounded closed subset even of the long integers. This can be done
- since any non-empty (closed) subset of I (L) has a smallest element.
- So one can construct a double sequence x_ij such that x_ij >= a is an
- element of S_i, x_i(j+1) >= x_ij +1, and x_(i+1)1 > x_ij for all j.
- The common limit on j of the x_ij is the desired point.
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- The eventual constancy of continuous functions follows from this by
- the usual proof by contradiction.
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