陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Covering a non-closed interval by disjoint closed intervals」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

The following question came up in my 245A class today:

Is it possible to express a non-closed interval in the real line, such as [0,1), as a countable union of disjoint closed intervals?

已知结果和反例

I was not able to answer the question immediately, but by the end of the class some of the students had come up with an answer. It is actually a nice little test of one’s basic knowledge of real analysis, so I am posing it here as well for anyone else who is interested. Below the fold is the answer to the question (whited out; one has to highlight the text in order to read it).

First of all, it suffices to prove the claim for an open interval such as (0,1). For, if one partitions a half-open interval such as [0,1) into closed intervals, then after selecting any one of these intervals [a,b], the open interval (b,1) must then also be partitioned into countably many disjoint closed intervals.

证明或构造的主线

By mapping (0,1) homeomorphically to the real line, it suffices to show that the real line R cannot be partitioned into closed intervals.

As each interval is bounded, we need an infinite number of intervals to cover the real line. Now consider the set

阅读时建议盯住的点

consisting of the endpoints of the intervals . Clearly, E is countably infinite. Also, as the form a disjoint cover of E, E is the complement of the open set and is hence closed. Finally, we claim that E is perfect : that not only is E closed, but every point in E is a limit point in E. Indeed, if x lies in E, then x is either the left or right endpoint of an interval , but it is not both. If it is, say, the right-endpoint of an interval, then by approaching x from the right

Now we appeal to a general theorem (a special case of the even more general Baire category theorem ) that asserts that a perfect subset of a complete metric space cannot be countably infinite. A proof is as follows. Suppose for contradiction that is a countably infinite perfect set. Let be any closed ball of positive radius whose centre lies in E (e.g. one can take the closed ball of radius 1 centered at ). Using the fact that is a limit point, one can then find a closed ball

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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