π-base: Difficulty 2
Difficulty: 2
For proofs that very easy, using a quick little argument.
2 Added: Mar 11, 2026 Difficulty: Let be infinite and countably infinite. If has no limit points, is closed and for each , choose a nbd with . Then is a cover. A finite subcover would imply is finite. 4 Added: Mar 11, 2026 Difficulty: For continuous, is a countable cover. 29 Added: Mar 18, 2026 Difficulty: Any countable family is a countable union of finite sets. Finite sets are clearly locally finite. So any countable family is -locally finite. 32 Added: Mar 15, 2026 Difficulty: If , then . 34 Added: Mar 14, 2026 Difficulty: A -netork is a network: This was done in (T11). 35 Added: Mar 14, 2026 Difficulty: Let continuous with and . Then and are disjoint with and . 40 Added: Mar 15, 2026 Difficulty: A path component is always a subset of a connected component: If is a path from to , then is a connected set containing and . 44 Added: Mar 18, 2026 Difficulty: In a partition topology, every open set is clopen, and equals its own closure. 45 Added: Mar 18, 2026 Difficulty: If and with , then in particular, , which must be clopen. 46 Added: Mar 18, 2026 Difficulty: Take . Then there’s some clopen with and , so cannot be in the connected component of . 47 Added: Mar 18, 2026 Difficulty: Path connected components are subsets of connected components. So path connected components are singletons, which implies constant paths. 48 Added: Mar 18, 2026 Difficulty: Let and with clopen. Then (indicator function of ) is continuous, since any preimage is one of and all are open. and . 49 Added: Mar 18, 2026 Difficulty: Contrapositively, suppose every nbd of must contain . Then and for is continuous. 57 Added: Mar 20, 2026 Difficulty: Let be a nbd of which is pseudometrizable. Then the open balls form a countable local basis. 64 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: A path component is always a subset of a connected component (seen in T40). 70 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: Let . If is compact , then is clearly closed in . This proves is closed. 71 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: If is continuous and nonconstant, then for some there exists with and the sets and are disjoint, open, and nonempty. 72 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: By definition, a discrete family must be disjoint, so in an ultraconnected space, it has at most one nonempty closed set . Then just choose to be the open set with . 73 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: Take and suppose is a nbd of not containing . Let with clopen, so . Similarly, is clopen and . 79 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: If is a clopen set, then the indicator function is continuous, so it must be constant equal to zero or one (meaning or ). 81 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: Let with open and compact (in particular, is closed). Then the sets of the form where is any open set is a local basis for and are all compact. 83 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: If is not discrete, then some path is non-constant, so some is injective, meaning . 85 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: The discrete metric iff is complete: If , then . 87 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: If no disjoint nonempty closed sets exist, one of the disjoint closed sets is empty, and the other is contained in , which is clopen. 89 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Contrapositively, if all paths were constant, then any basis of path connected sets must be made up of singletons, proving it would be discrete. 91 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Contrapositively, assume are disjoint, nonempty, and closed. Then we could separate them with open sets, disproving hyperconnectivity. 92 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Let be partitioned into two sets with at least 2 elements each. One of them contains , and so the other is contained in , so it is disconnected. 96 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Every open set is dense, so is trivially clopen for any open . 97 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Let be open. Then is clopen, so it is either empty or is dense (no other nonempty open sets are disjoint with ). 99 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Let . implies and are closed, and normal implies there are and open sets with . So it is and normal. 102 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Let be a countable local basis of . Let . Now just remove duplicates. Rigorously, define for each open. Then and is a valid definition with well ordered by reverse-inclusion, unless some is empty, for which is finite, and that’s okay. 103 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Take a local basis of which is well-ordered by reverse inclusion. Then it’s isomorphic to some ordinal and it can be enumerated with . Since , use the axiom of choice to construct . This is a similar proof to First countable Fréchet Urysohn (T183), just with transfinite sequences now (and using the full axiom of choice, not just countable). 109 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: If are indistinguishable, then . So no two distinct points are distinguishable. 113 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: A space is normal and , in particular, . So by (T37), it is completely regular. 114 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: The space is , so given , is closed. It’s also completely regular, so there is a continuous map with and . 115 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: The space is and completely regular. By (T35), it is regular. 134 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: If is a countable union of nowhere dense sets, then either it is a union of zero sets (so is empty), or can’t have empty interior (so is not Baire). 140 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: Given an open cover , define for all and so is a countable cover, since each is finite. 143 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Take . If is open, it’s a nbd of and not of . If it is closed, is a nbd of not of . 148 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Let such that and for some open . Then , so by regularity, choose disjoint open sets with and . Since , this proves being . and regular is by definition. 151 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: It suffices to show . For . The space is , so by swapping and if needed, suppose has a nbd not of , which means . Completely regular implies there’s a separation between and , which is a separation of and . 169 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Contrapositively, if were indistinguishable, then would have no isolated point. 174 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: Note that implies for any . So contrapositively, if , then the closed set is the closure of two distinct singletons (not unique), so the space is not sober. 183 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Take a countable local basis of . By constructing , is a shrinking local basis. Since , select for each and . 184 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: If denotes the sequential closure, then Fréchet Urysohn means “ for all ” and sequential means “ implies is closed for all ”. So if the former is true, then assuming , we have , proving is closed. 188 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Contrapositively, if is infinite, let be countable. Since no subsequence of is eventually constant, any subsequence must not converge. 204 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Any bijective function is a homeomorphism in discrete space. Just take the permutation that swaps and . 205 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Essentially the same proof as Fréchet Urysohn Sequential (T184). Just swap “sequential closure” with “radial closure”. 209 Added: Mar 26, 2026 Difficulty: Let be isolated and with a homeomorphism. Then is isolated. Do this for every . 221 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: For , is discrete, so some nbd of does not contain and vice-versa. 222 Added: Mar 26, 2026 Difficulty: If is infinite, let be a countable subset. But then is discrete and sets of the form form a cover for with no finite subcover, so can’t be compact. 226 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: Contrapositively, suppose there is no nbd of which doesn’t contain as well. Then for the constant sequence , and . 227 Added: Mar 27, 2026 Difficulty: If continuous and compact, is compact, so it is closed by KC. 228 Added: Mar 27, 2026 Difficulty: implies is closed. So is trivially closed in for any . 230 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: Let and be countable local bases of . Contrapositively, suppose for all , and choose . Then and . 231 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: is homeomorphic to . 233 Added: Mar 28, 2026 Difficulty: Not sure why they expected locally here. If is a homeomorphism and connected, then is connected. Every connected set in is path connected, so is path connected. 252 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Define if belong to the same set in the partition, and 0 otherwise. This is a pseudometric. 262 Added: Mar 28, 2026 Difficulty: If no nonempty disjoint open sets exist, implies all points are indistinguishable. 267 Added: Mar 29, 2026 Difficulty: Let be all nbds of . Then is an open set. For any , there is some nbd of with , so . 271 Added: Mar 29, 2026 Difficulty: Any network of open sets is a -network. If for some compact, we can take a finite subcollection of . Any basis is a network. Therefore, a countable basis is a countable -network. 276 Added: Mar 29, 2026 Difficulty: If is discrete, it can be covered by nbds which contain one element each. So if were to be Lindelöf, it has to have countably many elements. 284 Added: Mar 30, 2026 Difficulty: If is the collection of all nbds of , is the smallest nbd of , so is a compact local basis of : for any open cover of , there must be some with , and then is a subcover. 285 Added: Mar 30, 2026 Difficulty: If is the collection of all nbds of , is the smallest nbd of , so is a local basis of . 291 Added: Mar 30, 2026 Difficulty: If is countable, define . Then and every compact/finite set is contained in some . 293 Added: Mar 30, 2026 Difficulty: Cover a compact set with finite nbds. It has a finite subcover of finite sets, so it must be finite. 297 Added: Mar 30, 2026 Difficulty: Every point is associated with the constant map , which is continuous. So has at most as many continuous self-maps. 308 Added: Mar 31, 2026 Difficulty: Let be the isolated point with nbd so that . Every other point has a nbd not containing , so if is the union of all open sets not containing , we have and . 311 Added: Mar 31, 2026 Difficulty: Every singleton is a retract: the constant function is continuous. 314 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: If is isolated, any set containing cannot be nowhere empty, since it contains the open set . 316 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: Let be the smallest nbd of . Then must be path connected since it is indiscrete as a subspace topology, and so any function must be continuous. 318 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: In a space, finite sets are discrete, in particular, they are . 319 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: is a countable union of singletons. For each , because is , and because no point is isolated. 324 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: Suppose that for every compact and continuous, that is open. In particular, for each compact , the inclusion is continuous, and so is open. So is open. 325 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: Suppose that for every compact and continuous, that is open. In particular, for each compact and , is open. So is open. 328 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: A metric space is Hausdorff: For , let and then . 329 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: is a normed space, so it is metrizable. 330 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: Let and a pseudometrizable nbd of . If , we’re done. Otherwise, if they are indistinguishable, we have and then . 332 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: Let be a nbd such that . If is locally compact, is as well. But that holds since the balls form a basis and is compact in finite-dimensional metric spaces. 343 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: Take a star-finite open cover. is in some element , which is open. So for any nbd of , is a nbd which intersects finitely many elements. So it is locally finite. 347 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: The map satisfies , is bijective, continuous, and is also continuous. 349 Added: Apr 3, 2026 Difficulty: Any bijective function is a homeomorphism. Just take as the permutation that swaps and . 352 Added: Mar 14, 2026 Difficulty: Any countable family is a countable union of finite sets. Finite sets are clearly locally finite. So any countable family is -locally finite. 397 Added: Mar 17, 2026 Difficulty: Countably compact implies every sequence has an accumulation point, which would contradict being discrete. 406 Added: Apr 3, 2026 Difficulty: If are closed and disjoint, just apply the theorem to , since must be countable. Then so that and . 414 Added: Mar 27, 2026 Difficulty: Any converging sequence is eventually constant, and this constant has to be unique. 420 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: If and with , in particular, . So is regular and . (blaze it) 421 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: If is a nbd with , let be a regular basis element with . 429 Added: Mar 20, 2026 Difficulty: If has one or two points, clearly has either 1 point (trivially totally disconnected), or it’s empty (also totally disconnected, since there are no connected components). 437 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: is homeomorphic to . 438 Added: Apr 4, 2026 Difficulty: Some nbd around the isolated point has to be homeomorphic to . But that implies every point has a nbd homeomorphic to , and so every point is isolated. 441 Added: Apr 4, 2026 Difficulty: For each , as it is separable subspace, there is a countable with . So then . 444 Added: Apr 4, 2026 Difficulty: If , then the map is continuous yet has no fixed point. 447 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: If were to be topologically indistinguishable, let for all and . Then is continuous yet has no fixed point. 451 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: If , then there exists an injective function , which is clearly continuous in the trivial space, and a path from to . 459 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: If is a homeomorphism, the balls of the form for and form a countable basis for , so forms a basis for . 460 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: If , note that is metrizable because it’s a normed vector space, and being metrizable is hereditary, so is metrizable. 467 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: If is the partition for the topology of , then for each , the set such that is the smallest nbd of . 468 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: Any set of the partition is a clopen set. So if is the only nonempty clopen set, the partition is . 493 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: It has a bijection if finite, or if infinite. It’s a homeomorphism either way. 512 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: implies . Thus, if , then this must be unique. 527 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: If there’s a basis of compact open sets, the ones intersecting form a local basis for . 528 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: The open sets are trivially closed under finite intersections and form a basis. Since they are all compact, including itself, the space is spectral. 676 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: Take a basis of open injectively path connected sets. There’s a point of which the only possible basis element containing is . So is injectively path connected. 677 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: Let be the network of singletons. is locally finite: Every point has a finite nbd, so it obviously intersects finitely many elements of . 690 Added: Mar 27, 2026 Difficulty: Every countably compact set is also Lindelöf, so it is compact (T106), hence it is closed.Countably compact Weakly countably compact
Countably compact Pseudocompact
Has a countable network Has a -locally finite network
Has a -locally finite -network Has a -locally finite network
Completely regular Regular
Path connected Connected
Partition topology Extremally disconnected
(Extremally disconnected ∧ ) Totally separated
Totally separated Totally disconnected
Totally disconnected Totally path disconnected
Totally separated Functionally Hausdorff
Totally path disconnected
Locally pseudometrizable First countable
Locally path connected Locally connected
-space
Hyperconnected Strongly connected
Ultraconnected Collectionwise normal
(Zero dimensional ∧ ) Totally separated
Strongly connected Connected
(Weakly locally compact ∧ KC) Locally relatively compact
(Locally injectively path connected ∧ ¬ Discrete) ¬ Cardinality
Discrete Completely metrizable
Ultraconnected Ultranormal
(Locally path connected ∧ ¬ Discrete) ¬ Totally path disconnected
(Hyperconnected ∧ Normal) Ultraconnected
Has a dispersion point Biconnected
Hyperconnected Extremally disconnected
(Extremally disconnected ∧ Connected) Hyperconnected
( ∧ Normal)
First countable Well-based
Well-based Radial
(Ultraconnected ∧ ) Indiscrete
Functionally Hausdorff
(Baire ∧ ¬ Empty) ¬ Meager
Menger Lindelöf
Door
(Regular ∧ )
(Completely regular ∧ )
Scattered
Sober
First countable Fréchet Urysohn
Fréchet Urysohn Sequential
(Sequentially compact ∧ Sequentially discrete) Finite
Discrete Homogeneous
Radial Pseudoradial
(Has an isolated point ∧ Homogeneous) Discrete
Countable sets are discrete
Countable sets are discrete Anticompact
US
KC Weak Hausdorff
-Hausdorff
(First countable ∧ US)
Embeddable in Embeddable into Euclidean space
(Connected ∧ Embeddable in ) Locally path connected
Partition topology Pseudometrizable
( ∧ Hyperconnected) Indiscrete
(Alexandrov ∧ ) Discrete
Second countable Has a countable -network
Hereditarily Lindelöf Has countable spread
Alexandrov Locally compact
Alexandrov First countable
(Anticompact ∧ Countable) Hemicompact
Locally finite Anticompact
Countably-many continuous self-maps Countable
( ∧ Has an isolated point ∧ Has multiple points) ¬ Connected
Has closed retracts
Has an isolated point ¬ Meager
Alexandrov Locally path connected
(Anticompact ∧ ) -Hausdorff
(Countable ∧ ¬ Has an isolated point ∧ ) Meager
-space -space
-space -space
Locally metrizable Locally Hausdorff
Locally Euclidean Locally metrizable
Locally pseudometrizable
Locally Euclidean Locally compact
Strongly paracompact Paracompact
Has a group topology Homogeneous
Indiscrete Homogeneous
Has a countable -network Has a -locally finite -network
(Countable sets are discrete ∧ Countably compact) Finite
(Pseudonormal ∧ Countable) Normal
Sequentially discrete US
Semi-Hausdorff
( ∧ Semiregular) Semi-Hausdorff
(Connected ∧ ¬ Cardinality ∧ ¬ Empty) Has a dispersion point
Discrete Locally -Euclidean
(Locally -Euclidean ∧ Has an isolated point) Discrete
Hereditarily separable Countably tight
(Has a group topology ∧ Has multiple points) ¬ Fixed point property
Fixed point property
(Indiscrete ∧ ¬ Cardinality ) Locally injectively path connected
Embeddable into Euclidean space Second countable
Embeddable into Euclidean space Metrizable
Partition topology Alexandrov
(Partition topology ∧ Connected) Indiscrete
(Countable ∧ Discrete) Ordinal space
(Quasi-sober ∧ ) Sober
Spectral Locally compact
(Noetherian ∧ Sober) Spectral
(Has a point with a unique neighborhood ∧ Locally injectively path connected) Injectively path connected
Locally finite Has a -locally finite network
(KC ∧ Hereditarily Lindelöf) Strongly KC