Sum of two closed sets need not be closed

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Sum of two closed sets need not be closed by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
In , the sets and are closed because their points have no finite accumulation point. Their Minkowski sum contains but does not contain zero, since has no positive-integer solution. Compactness of one summand is a useful sufficient condition missing from this counterexample.

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