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Aug 2, 2010 at 18:36 history edited Martin Brandenburg CC BY-SA 2.5
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Aug 2, 2010 at 18:31 comment added Dan Ramras Very nice! This is closely related to the standard proof that compact subsets of CW complexes always lie inside a finite subcomplex (see the Appendix to Hatcher's book, for example).
Aug 2, 2010 at 10:02 history edited Martin Brandenburg CC BY-SA 2.5
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Aug 2, 2010 at 9:57 comment added Robin Chapman The union of an increasing sequence of subsets of a topological space need not be homeomorphic to the direct limit of that sequence.
Aug 2, 2010 at 9:50 history edited Martin Brandenburg CC BY-SA 2.5
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Aug 2, 2010 at 9:43 comment added Robin Chapman If the $X_i$ are the sets in Andrew's counterexample, the colimit of the $X_i$ is the disjoint union of $\{pt\}$ and $[0,\infty)$ an isn't compact.
Aug 2, 2010 at 9:34 vote accept Dror Atariah
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Aug 2, 2010 at 9:33 comment added Andrew Stacey I've reached the opposite conclusion!
Aug 2, 2010 at 9:32 vote accept Dror Atariah
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Aug 2, 2010 at 9:26 history edited Martin Brandenburg CC BY-SA 2.5
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Aug 2, 2010 at 9:26 comment added Dror Atariah Thanks for the quick answer! Could you add a reference where this lemma is cited? I couldn't find one.
Aug 2, 2010 at 9:21 history answered Martin Brandenburg CC BY-SA 2.5