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Consider $l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ the subset of $\mathbb{R}^{\mathbb{N}}$ of all bounded sequence of real numbers. Consider in $l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ the restriction of the product metric, i.e, $$ d(X,Y)=\dfrac{1}{2^i}\dfrac{|x_i-y_i|}{1+|x_i-y_i|} $$

Claim 1: $(l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}, d))$ is complete.

In fact, let $ (X_n)$ be a Cauchy sequence in $(l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}, d)).$ So given $\epsilon>$ there is $N$ s.t $m,n>N$ implies $d(X_n,X_m)<\epsilon.$ In particular for each fixed $i$ we can choose $N$ in such way that $m,n>N$ implies $|x_n^i-x_m^i|<\epsilon.$ Therefore for each fixed $i$ the sequence $(x^i_n)_n$ is a Cauchy sequence in $\mathbb{R}$, so this sequece must have a limit $x^i$. Set $X=(x¹,x²,\ldots, x^i,\ldots)$. We claim that $X\in l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})$, in fact observe that $$ |x^i|\leq|x^i-x_n^i|+|x_n^i| $$ and $$ |x^i-x_n^i|\leq|x_m^i-x^i|+|x_n^i-x_m^i|. $$ So we can choose $N$ s.t $m,n>N$ imples $|x_m^i-x^i|<\epsilon$, $|x_n^i-x_m^i|<\epsilon$ which implies $$ |x_i|\leq 2\epsilon+ K_n $$ for all $i$ where $K_n=\sup_i|x_i|$, finishing the proof

Claim 2: $(l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}, d))$ is separable. This is proved in this post: Prove that a subset of a separable set is itself separable

Claim 3: Consider the sets $\Omega_k=[-k,k]^{ \mathbb{N}}$, this sets are compacts in $(l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}, d)).$ In fact an open cover of $\Omega_k$ has the form $\{O_{\lambda}\cap l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})\}$ where $O_\lambda $ is an open set in the product space $\mathbb{R}^{\mathbb{N}}$, now note that $\{O_{\lambda}\}$ is an open cover of $\Omega_k$ in $\mathbb{R}^{\mathbb{N}}$ which is compact, so we can extract an finite open subcover $\{O_1, \ldots,O_k\}$ of $\Omega_k$, finally observe that $\{O_{i}\cap l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})\}_{i=1}^k$ is a subcover to $\Omega_k$ in $(l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}, d))$ therefore $\Omega_k$ is compact in the subspace topology.

My Goals: My desires with this reasoning is to show that some of this compacts are non empty interior. Once $(l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}, d))$ is a Polish space and $l^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})=\bigcup \Omega_k$ we can use the Baire Theorem in order to get at last one $\Omega_k$ non empty interior.

Is this reasoning correct?

Eduardo
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The problem with your argument is that in the product topology the bounded sequences are dense and not closed. So they're not complete in the product topology metric. So the argument breaks down.

Henno Brandsma
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