Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/iii/paper-7/1/i/solution

Intersect a connected component of with the clopen subset . Connectedness makes the intersection either empty or all of . In the empty case . In the other case ; a connected set in containing is also connected in , so maximality prevents it from being larger. Thus is a component of , or .

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