Prove Compact Metric Space is Locally Path Connected

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Hi,
I am trying to prove that any compact metric space that is also locally connected,must be locally path connected.
can someone help?
thank's in advance.
 
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Do you know that a locally connected and connected metric space is locally path connected?

To prove that, consider an element x the set of all y such that there is a path from x to y.
 
You mean to show that this is clopen?This is my difficulty.I suppose the compacity is needed
 
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Check Willard theorem 31.2.
 
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hahn mazurkiewicz theorem gives the answer
 
A sphere as topological manifold can be defined by gluing together the boundary of two disk. Basically one starts assigning each disk the subspace topology from ##\mathbb R^2## and then taking the quotient topology obtained by gluing their boundaries. Starting from the above definition of 2-sphere as topological manifold, shows that it is homeomorphic to the "embedded" sphere understood as subset of ##\mathbb R^3## in the subspace topology.
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