On Ishiki's Conjecture: $\mathrm{Met}(D)$ Is Not Completely Metrizable for $\lvert D\rvert=\aleph_1$
General Topology
2026-08-11 v1
Abstract
For a discrete topological space , let denote the set of metrics on that are compatible with the discrete topology, equipped with the topology induced by the supremum distance. Ishiki's Conjecture 5.1 asserts that is not completely metrizable when . We prove this in ZFC by constructing a set of cardinality that is not and embedding its complement as a closed subspace of . The proof has also been formalised in Lean 4.
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@article{arxiv.2608.11023,
title = {On Ishiki's Conjecture: $\mathrm{Met}(D)$ Is Not Completely Metrizable for $\lvert D\rvert=\aleph_1$},
author = {Tomoki Uda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.11023},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
8 pages; the proof has also been formalised in Lean 4