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ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2002/iii/paper-7/1/ii/solution

A connected component of meets the relatively clopen subset either everywhere or nowhere: its intersection and its complement would otherwise disconnect . If it meets nowhere, . If it meets everywhere, is a connected subset of , and any larger connected subset of would be a connected subset of larger than its component . Thus is either a whole component of or lies wholly in .

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