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Q is not consonant: the Costantini-Watson argument

I have already given an argument for the non-consonance of the Sorgenfrey line Rℓ here. I would now like to explain why the space Q of rational numbers is not consonant either. That is quite a challenge. The most easily … Continue reading

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Compact scattered subsets and a topological game

Showing that Q is not consonant is quite an ordeal. I have finally managed to understand one of the existing proofs of this fact, due to Costantini and Watson. This would be a bit too long to cover entirely in … Continue reading

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