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Past exam of the options II course of the University of Oxford 2013 E4 a iii Solution by
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Suppose no is contained in . Then are nested nonempty closed subsets of the compact space. Part (ii) gives a point in their intersection. Such a point lies both in and outside , contradicting the hypothesis. Thus some , and nesting givesCompactness upgrades containment of the limiting intersection to eventual containment of the whole nested sets.
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