Paper 3, Section I, 3E3 E

Metric and Topological Spaces
Part IB, 2018

What does it mean to say that a topological space is connected? If XX is a topological space and xXx \in X, show that there is a connected subspace KxK_{x} of XX so that if SS is any other connected subspace containing xx then SKxS \subseteq K_{x}.

Show that the sets KxK_{x} partition XX.