Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/ib/paper-2/12f/iii/solution

False. In , let
Each is closed: its distinct points escape to infinity, so it has no finite accumulation point. Their Minkowski sum contains , tending to zero. However zero is not in the sum. If with positive integers , then . For the right side is strictly between zero and one, while the left side is an integer; for the equation would require . Thus the sum of two closed sets need not be closed. The same counterexample embeds along a coordinate axis in .

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