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Proving the Nested Compact Set Property

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There’s this theorem in my analysis book that I want to prove, which states that:

If

$k_{1} \subseteq k_{2} \subseteq k_{3} \subseteq ...$

Then the intersection

$\bigcap_{n=1}^{\infty}k_{n} \neq \varnothing$

My idea was to show that $k_{n}$ contains its supremum, since all the sets are compact and thus are bounded and closed:

$k_{1}$ is bounded $\implies$$k_{n}$ is bounded for all n $\in$ N$\implies$ sup($k_{n}$) exists for all n $\in$ N

$k_{n}$ is closed for all n $\in$ N $\implies$ sup($k_{n}$) $\in$$k_{n}$ for all n $\in$ N

Thus the intersection is non empty because every $k_{n}$ is non empty

Is this correct? If not, where did it go wrong?


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