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When dealing with a metric space it is often useful to form its completion. Similarly, it may be useful to embed a topological space \( X \) in a compact Hausdorff space, preferably as a dense subset.
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Groenewegen, G.L.M., van Rooij, A.C.M. (2016). The Stone-Čech Compactification. In: Spaces of Continuous Functions. Atlantis Studies in Mathematics, vol 4. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-201-4_7
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