Friday, 2 March 2007

gn.general topology - A question about disconnecting a Euclidean space or a Hilbert space

Assume the complement of SS in mathbbRnmathbbRn is not connected, say AA and BB are relatively closed and disjoint in mathbbRnsetminusSmathbbRnsetminusS (and nonempty of course); let OO be the complement of the closure of BB and UU the complement of the closure of AA, then OO and UU are disjoint nonempty open subsets of mathbbRnmathbbRn and the complement of their union, FF, is closed in mathbbRnmathbbRn, a subset of SS and it separates mathbbRnmathbbRn.
In short: SS contains a closed set that also separates; as you noted that set is zero-dimensional and hence the answer is `no' for Euclidean spaces.
I don't know (yet) about Hilbert space.

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