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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 b iii Solution by
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Let be a Cauchy sequence for the Hausdorff distance, and putThe bounded set hypothesis makes finite, and the Cauchy sequence property gives . Each is nonempty and a closed set, with .
We need estimates that survive taking the closure. For every nonempty , the distance to a set is Lipschitz continuous with constant one: the triangle inequality gives , and interchanging provesFor every , points of have distance at most from . The same holds throughout their union and its closure, by this continuity. Since ,More generally, if , every point in is within of . Passing to its closure again, and using , givesChoose strictly increasing indices with . Then satisfies part (ii), so it converges in Hausdorff distance to the nonempty closed set , with .
For , the triangle inequality gives the explicit full-sequence boundIt tends to zero as . ThereforeThis proves Completeness of the Hausdorff hyperspace using the proposed tail closures, rather than assuming their diameters shrink.
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