Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 14 4 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
LetThis is the dense countable family of cofinite infinite subsets. Every ordinary basic open set contains the cofinite set . Thus is -dense: its ordinary closure is the whole space, so it is not -nowhere dense.
It is -closed. Indeed, for an infinite noncofinite , the Ellentuck topology neighbourhood contains only noncofinite sets, because every subset of misses the infinite complement of . This neighbourhood is disjoint from .
Finally every nonempty basic -open set contains a smaller basic -open set disjoint from : enumerate and let consist of every second point. Then is infinite, and contains no cofinite set. In particular has empty -interior. As it is already -closed, its -closure has empty -interior, proving that it is -nowhere dense.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 9 4 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Take to be the ordinary topology on infinite subsets, whose basic cylinders fix a finite initial segment. LetThis is a dense countable family of cofinite infinite subsets. It is countable because finite complements form a countable family. Each singleton is -closed: distinct increasing enumerations differ at some finite coordinate, which separates them by cylinders. No singleton has interior, since every cylinder admits more than one infinite continuation. Thus every singleton is -nowhere dense, and is -meagre.
On the other hand, every cylinder contains the cofinite set , with . Hence is -dense, its closure is all of , and
The paper does not define its symbol . If the course instead uses it for the Ramsey cone topology, with basic neighborhoods and no finite stem, use itself as the example. For , its cone-closure is : every cone neighborhood of a set containing contains an infinite subset of minimum , while a cone based on a set omitting misses . This closure has empty interior, because every infinite reservoir can be thinned to omit . Thus every is cone-nowhere dense, and is cone-meagre but is not cone-nowhere dense. This supplies the requested example under either convention, without conflating the two topologies.