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- Properties and Examples
- See also
- Notes
- References
In mathematics, a topological space X is said to be limit point compact[1] or weakly countably compact if every infinite subset of X has a limit point in X. This property generalizes a property of compact spaces. In a metric space, limit point compactness, compactness, and sequential compactness are all equivalent. For general topological spaces, however, these three notions of compactness are not equivalent. Properties and Examples- Limit point compactness is equivalent to countable compactness if X is a T1-space and is equivalent to compactness if X is a metric space.
- An example of a space X that is not weakly countably compact is any countable (or larger) set with the discrete topology. A more interesting example is the countable complement topology.
- Even though a continuous function from a compact space X, to an ordered set Y in the order topology, must be bounded, the same thing does not hold if X is limit point compact. An example is given by the space (where X = {1, 2} carries the indiscrete topology and is the set of all integers carrying the discrete topology) and the function given by projection onto the second coordinate. Clearly, ƒ is continuous and is limit point compact (in fact, every nonempty subset of has a limit point) but ƒ is not bounded, and in fact is not even limit point compact.
- Every countably compact space (and hence every compact space) is weakly countably compact, but the converse is not true.
- For metrizable spaces, compactness, limit point compactness, and sequential compactness are all equivalent.
- The set of all real numbers, R, is not limit point compact; the integers are an infinite set but do not have a limit point in R.
- If (X, T) and (X, T) are topological spaces with T finer than T and (X, T) is limit point compact, then so is (X, T).
- A finite space is vacuously limit point compact.
See also- Compact space
- Sequential compactness
- Metric space
- Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem
- Countably compact space
Notes1. ^The terminology "limit point compact" appears in a topology textbook by James Munkres, and is apparently due to him. According to him, some call the property "Fréchet compactness", while others call it the "Bolzano-Weierstrass property". Munkres, p. 178–179.
References | author = James Munkres | year = 1999 | title = Topology | edition = 2nd | publisher = Prentice Hall | isbn = 0-13-181629-2 }}- {{PlanetMath attribution|id=1234|title=Weakly countably compact}}
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