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词条 Limit point compact
释义

  1. Properties and Examples

  2. See also

  3. Notes

  4. 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

Notes

1. ^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

  • {{cite book

| 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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