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Past exam of the probability, statistics and options I course of the University of Oxford 2010 E 2 b iii Solution by
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Take distinct classes . The failure of supplies a Hausdorff space and a continuous map with . Choose disjoint open neighborhoods of these two images. Their inverse images and are disjoint open subsets of , and part (ii) says both are saturated.
The quotient topology therefore makes and open, since their inverse images are precisely . They are disjoint as well: an equivalence class meeting both would, by saturation, be contained in both. They contain and respectively. Thus is Hausdorff. This construction is the Hausdorff reflection by continuous maps.
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