Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 106 2 c iv Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Part i makes a closed subset of the compact metrizable space , so it is compact metrizable and therefore separable. Choose the stated dense sequence and, using part iii, the sequences and . In constructing the universal weakly null sequence from part b, retain a tail of each and write along the retained subsequence, where .
Eachis weak-star closed. Since , every fixed belongs to some , so . The compact Hausdorff space is a Baire space, and the Baire category theorem implies that some has nonempty relative weak-star interior.
Suppose . Choose a nonempty relatively open and then by density. Since , eventually . For a sufficiently late retained index, also , and hencecontradicting . Therefore the One-step Szlenk derivation for a separable dual gives whenever is nonempty.