Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 220 1 a Solution 2026-09-28
A compact real tree is a compact metric space such that any are joined by a unique arc, and that arc is isometric to . The multiplicity of a point in a real tree is the number of connected components of .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 220 1 c Solution 2026-09-28
The assertion is false. Join, at one common endpoint , a line segment of length for every positive integer , and use the intrinsic path metric. This is a real tree. It is totally bounded, because outside the first finitely many arms every point lies arbitrarily close to , and it is complete; hence it is compact. Removing leaves one connected component for every arm, so has countably infinite multiplicity of a point in a real tree.