injective images of Baire space
Every uncountable Polish space![]()
is, up to a countable
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subset, an injective image of Baire space .
Theorem.
Let be an uncountable Polish space. Then, there is a one-to-one and continuous function![]()
such that is countable.
Although the inverse will not generally be continuous, it is at least Borel measurable. It can be shown that this is true for all one-to-one and continuous functions between Polish spaces, although here it follows directly from the construction of (http://planetmath.org/ProofOfInjectiveImagesOfBaireSpace).