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1. The Baire category theorem - Aarhus Universitet

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On locally compact Hausdorff spaces<br />

Proof.<br />

Since X is locally compact we can, for each k ∈ K, find an open<br />

set Wk such that k ∈ Wk and Wk is compact.<br />

Since {Wk : k ∈ K} is an open cover of K, and K is compact,<br />

there is a finite collection k1,k2,...,kN such that<br />

K ⊆ Wk1 ∪ Wk2 ∪ · · · ∪ WkN . Set W = Wk1 ∪ Wk2 ∪ · · · ∪ WkN and<br />

note that W ⊆ Wk1 ∪ Wk2 ∪ · · · ∪ WkN .<br />

It follows from Lemma 3 that W is compact. This completes the<br />

proof in the case where U = X, since we can then take V = W.<br />

When U = X, let C = Uc be the complement of U in X. For each<br />

p ∈ C there is an open set W ′ p such that K ⊆ W ′ p and p /∈ W ′ p .<br />

This follows from Lemma <strong>1.</strong><br />

Klaus Thomsen <strong>1.</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Baire</strong> <strong>category</strong> <strong>theorem</strong>

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