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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

1.13

Part a.) Let F \subset \mathbb{R}^{d} be an arbitrary closed set. First, define: O_n = \lbrace x \in \mathbb{R} \hspace{0.25cm} | \hspace{0.25cm} \mathbb{d}{(x,F)} < \frac{1}{n} \rbrace Notice \overline{F} = \bigcap_{n = 1}^{\infty} O_n. Since F is closed, F = \overline{F}. Thus F \in F_\sigma.

Part b.) There's a well-known corollary to Baire's Category Theorem that states:
\dagger In a complete metric space, the intersection of any countable collection of dense G_\delta's is again a dense G_\delta.

First notice that we can write \mathbb{Q} = \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty} \lbrace q_n \rbrace, where \lbrace q_n \rbrace_{n \in \mathbb{N}} is an enumeration of the rationals. Since each \lbrace q_n \rbrace is closed, it's easy to see that \mathbb{Q} \in F_\sigma.

Next, observe that \mathbb{Q} \in F_\sigma \Rightarrow \mathbb{Q}^c \in G_\delta. Now it is clear from \dagger that \mathbb{Q} can not be G_\delta, since \mathbb{Q} \cap \mathbb{Q}^c = \emptyset, which is nowhere-dense. Thus, \mathbb{Q} is F_\sigma but not G_\delta, as desired.

Part c.) S = (\mathbb{Q} \cap (-\infty, 0]) \cup (\mathbb{Q}^c \cap (0, \infty))

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