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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2017 2 a iii Solution by
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Suppose a path-connected space had a separation as above. Choose , , and a continuous path joining them. The nonempty disjoint sets and would separate , contradicting connectedness of an interval. Hence path-connectedness implies connectedness. Equivalently, the connected path image from part (i) cannot meet both sides of a separation.
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