Paper 1, Section II, G

Metric and Topological Spaces | Part IB, 2011

Let XX be a metric space with the distance function d:X×X→Rd: X \times X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}. For a subset YY of XX, its diameter is defined as δ(Y):=sup⁡{d(y,y′)∣y,y′∈Y}\delta(Y):=\sup \left\{d\left(y, y^{\prime}\right) \mid y, y^{\prime} \in Y\right\}.

Show that, if XX is compact and {Uλ}λ∈Λ\left\{U_{\lambda}\right\}_{\lambda \in \Lambda} is an open covering of XX, then there exists an ϵ>0\epsilon>0 such that every subset Y⊂XY \subset X with δ(Y)<ϵ\delta(Y)<\epsilon is contained in some UλU_{\lambda}.

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