Friday, 2 March 2007

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

Assume the complement of S in mathbbRn is not connected, say A and B are relatively closed and disjoint in mathbbRnsetminusS (and nonempty of course); let O be the complement of the closure of B and U the complement of the closure of A, then O and U are disjoint nonempty open subsets of mathbbRn and the complement of their union, F, is closed in mathbbRn, a subset of S and it separates mathbbRn.
In short: S 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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