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The Simplex, the Control Set and Their Product are Compact Separable Metric Spaces

Statement

Let ll and mm be natural numbers with l≥2l\ge2 and m≥1m\ge1, and let T>0T>0 be a real number. Let Δl\Delta^{l} be the probability simplex, write ∣⋅∣|\cdot| for the Euclidean norm, let dRld_{\mathbb{R}^{l}} be the Euclidean distance, a metric by Euclidean Distance is a Metric on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, and let dΔd_{\Delta} be its restriction to Δl\Delta^{l}, a metric by claim 1 of The Restriction of a Metric to a Subset Induces the Subspace Topology.

Let A\mathcal{A} be a nonempty convex subset of Euclidean space Rm\mathbb{R}^{m} that is compact for the topology determined by the Euclidean distance, let UA\mathcal{U}_{\mathcal{A}} be the set of A\mathcal{A}-valued controls for the horizon TT, and let ρ\rho be the metric on UA\mathcal{U}_{\mathcal{A}} given by claim 1 of the weak metrizability and compactness theorem. Let X=Δl×UAX=\Delta^{l}\times\mathcal{U}_{\mathcal{A}} be the Cartesian product and let dXd_{X} be the product metric, a metric by claim 1 of The Product Metric is a Metric.

Then the following hold.

1. (The simplex is closed and bounded.) Δl\Delta^{l} is nonempty, ∣x∣≤1|x|\le1 for every x∈Δlx\in\Delta^{l}, the set Δl\Delta^{l} is bounded as a subset of the metric space (Rl,dRl)(\mathbb{R}^{l},d_{\mathbb{R}^{l}}), and Δl\Delta^{l} is closed in Rl\mathbb{R}^{l} for the topology determined by the Euclidean distance.

2. (The simplex is a compact separable metric space.) Δl\Delta^{l} is a compact subset of Rl\mathbb{R}^{l}; the metric space (Δl,dΔ)(\Delta^{l},d_{\Delta}) is compact and sequentially compact; and it is separable.

3. (The control set is a compact separable metric space.) The metric space (UA,ρ)(\mathcal{U}_{\mathcal{A}},\rho) is compact and sequentially compact, and it is separable.

4. (The product.) The metric space (X,dX)(X,d_{X}) is compact and sequentially compact, and it is separable. Moreover, if DΔD_{\Delta} is a countable subset of Δl\Delta^{l} that is dense in Δl\Delta^{l} for the topology of subsets open in (Δl,dΔ)(\Delta^{l},d_{\Delta}), and DUD_{\mathcal{U}} is a countable subset of UA\mathcal{U}_{\mathcal{A}} dense in UA\mathcal{U}_{\mathcal{A}} for the topology of subsets open in (UA,ρ)(\mathcal{U}_{\mathcal{A}},\rho), then DΔ×DUD_{\Delta}\times D_{\mathcal{U}} is countable and dense in XX for the topology of subsets open in (X,dX)(X,d_{X}).

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