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Past exam of the analytic topology and axiomatic set theory course of the University of Oxford 2009 A 2 ii Solution by
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A C-embedded subset is one when every continuous real-valued function on extends continuously to . It is a Cb-embedded subset when this is required for every bounded continuous real-valued function, with a bounded extension. These definitions concern the subspace topology on .
Here is the bounded Tietze extension construction from Urysohn's lemma. Let be continuous with . The case has the zero extension. For , the sets and are disjoint and closed in , since is closed. Urysohn's lemma gives a continuous taking the endpoint values on . On ,Indeed on or this follows from the prescribed endpoint; on their complement both and are at most .
Repeat on the residual. With , choose continuous satisfying and reducing the residual on to at most . The series converges uniformly by the geometric majorant. Its sum is continuous, has , and restricts to , since the residual tends uniformly to zero. Thus every bounded continuous function extends, with its bound preserved, proving -embeddedness without assuming the extension theorem being proved.
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