Let Y be a topological space. Supposeis a continuous map such that
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for all
, and all
. (Here v0 denotes the vector v with 0 appended, etc.) Then the image of f is path connected.
Letand
be elements of the image we wish to connect by a path. Find
,
such that
have the same first coordinate, and
,
have the same first coordinate and
. (If
have the same first coordinate, take
; otherwise apply the hypothesis
with v as the empty vector.) Let
be this common value.
Next find
,
, using the same argument, such that
agree in the first two coordinates,
,
agree in the first two coordinates, and
. Let
be this common value. Do the analogous thing at 3/4.
By induction, we may continue to define
,
,
at all dyadic rationals
in
, such that
and
agree in the first n coordinates and
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By induction, we see that all the
with
agree in the first n coordinates. Hence for
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not a dyadic rational, we may define
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and
. Then w maps
into
where
is the first n coordinates of
,
, and of
.
We now show that w is continuous at
. Let U be an open set of Y containing
. Then
contains
and
for some finite substrings
of
respectively, by continuity of f. By the last sentence of the previous paragraph it follows that
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will contain a neighborhood of r.