Abstract
An important condition for the coincidence of the algebras R(E) and C(E) on a compactum
was found by A. G. Vitushkin. In this note we give a simple proof of Vitushkin's theorem.
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 135, pp. 178–181, 1984.
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Shirokov, N.A. A theorem of A. G. Vitushkin. J Math Sci 31, 2746–2748 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02107261
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