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The one-point compactification of the discrete real line is compact and Lindelöf but is neither first countable nor separable
Example
Give the discrete topology and form . The one-point compactification theorem makes compact, hence Lindelöf, and every point of remains isolated.
A neighbourhood of has finite complement in , since compact subsets of a discrete space are finite. If were a countable local base at , put . For every , the neighbourhood would contain some , so . Each finite subset of has a canonical increasing enumeration; these enumerations and countability of make the displayed union countable, contradicting uncountability of . Thus is not first countable. Finally every dense subset must meet the open singleton for every , so it contains all of and cannot be countable; hence is not separable.
Depends on
- The one-point (Alexandroff) compactification $X^{*} = X \cup \{\infty\}$, whose open sets are the open sets of $X$ together with the complements in $X^{*}$ of the closed compact subsets of $X$
- $X^{*}$ is compact and contains $X$ as an open subspace; $X$ is dense in $X^{*}$ exactly when $X$ is not compact; and $X^{*}$ is Hausdorff exactly when $X$ is locally compact and Hausdorff
- First countable space: a countable neighbourhood base at every point
- Separability: the existence of an at most countable dense subset
- Countably compact, Lindel\"of, sequentially compact, limit point compact and $\sigma$-compact spaces, and relatively compact subsets
- The discrete, indiscrete, cofinite, cocountable, particular-point and Sierpinski topologies
- $\mathbb{R}$ is uncountable (Cantor's nested intervals, 1874)
- A product of two at most countable sets is at most countable
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Sources
- UCR General Topology Notes (standard reference, not scraped)
- Fort space (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Alexandroff extension (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)