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Discrete Stone-Čech compactifications are extremally disconnected

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For a discrete space X and D⊆X, the continuous extension of 1D​ to βX remains idempotent by density, so it takes values in {0,1}. Its one-set is the clopen closure of D. If O is any open set in βX, density gives O=O∩X, so this closure is clopen as well. Thus βX is an extremally disconnected space. For infinite X, this does not imply that every subset of βX has open closure.

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