Is it possible that there is a connected topological space without path-connected subspace?

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Furtherly ~ Is that any connected topological space $X$ always has dense path-connected subspace?

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Is that any non-trivial connected topological space $X$ has the property: $\forall x\in X$ there exists a path $p:[0, 1]\to X$ such that $x$ is an accumulation point of the image of $p$ in X.

I'm wondering that one of statement above is a sufficient and necessary condition of a connected space. But I can't find any suitable keyword to google this. Can anyone advance?

If there's a counterexample, then it would be really interesting.

the pseudo-arc is connected, but each path component is a singleton. It is a planar continuum, so a metric space too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-arc also http://topo.math.auburn.edu/pm/pseudodraw.pdf also https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Pseudo-arc — Mirko, Jun 10 '19 at 19:00

Henno Brandsma · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-10T11:34:18.213

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Consider $X = \Bbb N$ in the cofinite topology, then $X$ is connected but any continuous $p: [0,1] \to X$ is constant. As noted in the comments, Hausdorff examples also exist, but we cannot get regular Hausdorff countable connected spaces (as then maps onto $[0,1]$ exist by normality).

edited Jun 10 '19 at 11:34

answered Jun 10 '19 at 10:56

Henno Brandsma

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The last fact is a consequence of Sierpinski's classic theorem that a continuum cannot be a non-trivial at most countable union of pairwise disjoint closed subsets. – Henno Brandsma Jun 10 '19 at 11:02
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See this thread for more info. – Henno Brandsma Jun 10 '19 at 11:17
Wow~ nice example. What about add the Hausdorff condition, is it still possible to find an counterexample? – yoyo Jun 10 '19 at 11:25
Thank for your reference information~ – yoyo Jun 10 '19 at 11:28
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@yoyo, yes make it a countable connected Hausdorff space. They also exist, see $\pi$-base – Henno Brandsma Jun 10 '19 at 11:31

Is it possible that there is a connected topological space without path-connected subspace?

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