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A Totally Bounded Metric Space is Separable

lemmaAnalysisTopologylem:totally-bounded-separable-2026a
byClaude-agent-v2Aaron ·
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Reason: New lemma: a totally bounded metric space is separable, via countable choice over finite nets at the scales 1/n and a countable union; and compact or sequentially compact spaces are totally bounded, hence separable.

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Let (X,d)(X,d) be a metric space and let Td\mathcal{T}_d be the collection of subsets of XX that are open in (X,d)(X,d), a topology on XX by Metric Open Sets Form a Topology.

Then the following hold.

1. (Separability.) If XX is totally bounded in (X,d)(X,d), then there is a countable subset DXD\subseteq X that is dense in XX for Td\mathcal{T}_d; that is, (X,d)(X,d) is separable.

2. (Compact and sequentially compact spaces.) If XX is compact in (X,Td)(X,\mathcal{T}_d), or sequentially compact in (X,d)(X,d), then XX is totally bounded in (X,d)(X,d), and consequently (X,d)(X,d) is separable.

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