Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-106/2/c/iv/solution

Part i makes a closed subset of the compact metrizable space , so it is compact metrizable and therefore separable. Choose the stated dense sequence and, using part iii, the sequences and . In constructing the universal weakly null sequence from part b, retain a tail of each and write along the retained subsequence, where .
Each
is weak-star closed. Since , every fixed belongs to some , so . The compact Hausdorff space is a Baire space, and the Baire category theorem implies that some has nonempty relative weak-star interior.
Suppose . Choose a nonempty relatively open and then by density. Since , eventually . For a sufficiently late retained index, also , and hence
contradicting . Therefore the One-step Szlenk derivation for a separable dual gives whenever is nonempty.
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