The Buoyancy Theorem states that a compact set is buoyant if every point of the compact set has a neighborhood whose intersection with the compact set is buoyant. In this paper, the Buoyancy Theorem is used to prove several standard results involving compact sets. The proof of such a result may be a direct application of the Buoyancy Theorem or the proof may rely on a certain compactness argument which follows from the Buoyancy Theorem. The last application in this paper is such an example.
The method used is to, first of all, define a buoyancy on the compact set; secondly, show that every point of the compact set has a neighborhood whose intersection with the compact set is buoyant; and finally, apply the Buoyancy Theorem to conclude that the compact set is buoyant.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-7894 |
| Date | 01 May 1969 |
| Creators | Cutler, Elwyn David |
| Publisher | DigitalCommons@USU |
| Source Sets | Utah State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
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| Source | All Graduate Theses and Dissertations |
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