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In real analysis, a branch of mathematics, Cantor's intersection theorem, named after Georg Cantor, is a theorem related to compact sets of a compact space . It states that a decreasing nested sequence of non-empty compact subsets of has nonempty intersection. In other words, supposing is a sequence of non-empty, closed and totally bounded sets satisfying : it follows that : The result is typically used as a lemma in proving the Heine–Borel theorem, which states that sets of real numbers are compact if and only if they are closed and bounded. Conversely, if the Heine–Borel theorem is known, then it can be restated as: a decreasing nested sequence of non-empty, compact subsets of a compact space has nonempty intersection. As an example, if ''C''''k'' = (), the intersection over is . On the other hand, both the sequence of open bounded sets ''C''''k'' = (0, 1/''k'') and the sequence of unbounded closed sets ''C''''k'' = [''k'', ∞) have empty intersection. All these sequences are properly nested. The theorem generalizes to R''n'', the set of ''n''-element vectors of real numbers, but does not generalize to arbitrary metric spaces. For example, in the space of rational numbers, the sets : are closed and bounded, but their intersection is empty. A simple corollary of the theorem is that the Cantor set is nonempty, since it is defined as the intersection of a decreasing nested sequence of sets, each of which is defined as the union of a finite number of closed intervals; hence each of these sets is non-empty, closed, and bounded. In fact, the Cantor set contains uncountably many points. == Proof == Assume, by way of contradiction, that . For each n, let . Since and , thus . Since is compact and is an open cover of it, we can extract a finite cover. Let be the largest set of this cover; then . But then , a contradiction. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cantor's intersection theorem」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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