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Is the absolute of a compact space the projective limit of the Stone-Čech compactifications of its open dense subsets?
Is the following statement true, and if it is, does someone have a reference?
Let $X$ be a compact (i.e., compact and Hausdorff) topological space. Then the Gleason space (=Iliadis absolute, =...
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Stone-Cech compactification of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and smooth functions
I am currently attending a course where we are now covering the Stone-Cech compactification. Today we proved in some detail that extensions of bounded smooth functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$ to $\beta\...
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