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A short proof of a theorem of Machado

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. A. Edwards
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Oxford

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Let X be a non-empty compact Hausdorff space and let C(X) denote either the space of all continuous real-valued functions or the space of all complex-valued functions on X, endowed with the norm , where for each non-empty closed F ⊆ X and each f ∈ C(X) we write

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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