Connected Spaces and Forcing
Keywords:
connected, forcingAbstract
We study how forcing destroys connectedness of topological spaces. A topological space is called strongly connected if every continuous real-valued function on it is constant. We give an example where forcing destroys strong connectedness of a space.
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