Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-136/1/b/iv/solution

This is always true. Every open ball in an ultrametric space is also closed: a point outside a ball has a disjoint ball of the same radius around it. Distinct points can therefore be separated by clopen sets, so every connected subset is a singleton and is totally disconnected.
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