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A discrete space satisfies every axiom in the chain; an indiscrete space with two points is regular, completely regular, normal, completely normal and perfectly normal, and fails
Example
Let be a set with the discrete topology , and let with carry the indiscrete topology (The discrete, indiscrete, cofinite, cocountable, particular-point and Sierpinski topologies). Then:
- satisfies every axiom named on the main page: it is , Hausdorff, Urysohn, regular, completely regular, normal, completely normal and perfectly normal, hence , , , , , , , and .
- is regular, completely regular, normal, completely normal and perfectly normal, and it is not , hence not , not Hausdorff and not Urysohn; and it is not metrizable (Metrizable space: a topological space whose topology is induced by some metric; metrizability is topological, the metric is not).
Clause 2 is the sharpest form of the observation that the unnumbered adjectives carry no information about points: a space may satisfy all five of them and still fail to distinguish any pair of its points. That is exactly what the numerals to are for.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A set with ; the set with and ; subsets of the space under discussion; and with its usual topology.
In every subset is open and every subset is closed (The discrete, indiscrete, cofinite, cocountable, particular-point and Sierpinski topologies, Topology on a set, open and closed sets, clopen sets, the closed-set axiomatisation, and the coarser/finer comparison).
In the open sets are and , and so are the closed sets (The discrete, indiscrete, cofinite, cocountable, particular-point and Sierpinski topologies, Topology on a set, open and closed sets, clopen sets, the closed-set axiomatisation, and the coarser/finer comparison).
The axioms: and ( (Kolmogorov) and (Frechet) spaces); Hausdorff (Hausdorff space: distinct points have disjoint open neighbourhoods; every metrizable space is Hausdorff and the indiscrete topology on two points is not); Urysohn (Urysohn () space: distinct points have neighbourhoods with disjoint closures); regular (Regular spaces and spaces, with the source disagreement over whether regularity includes stated explicitly); completely regular (Completely regular spaces and Tychonoff () spaces); normal (Normal spaces and spaces, with the source disagreement over whether normality includes stated explicitly); completely normal and perfectly normal (Completely normal () and perfectly normal () spaces).
and are separated when ; separated sets are disjoint (Separated sets: ).
when is closed, and is the smallest closed superset of (A point lies in the closure of iff every basic neighbourhood of it meets ; the closure is the smallest closed superset and equals together with its derived set, claim 2, Interior, closure, boundary, exterior, derived set and isolated point in a topological space).
A set is a when it is an intersection of a sequence of open sets; every open set is a , by the constant sequence ( and subsets of a topological space, agreeing with the real-line notion).
A map out of a discrete space is continuous, every preimage being open; a constant map is continuous; carries the subspace topology of (For a map of spaces the following agree: continuity at every point, preimages of open sets open, preimages of closed sets closed, preimages of subbasic open sets open, and , clause (b), Continuity of a map of topological spaces at a point and globally, Zero sets and cozero sets of continuous real-valued functions, Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length).
A metrizable space is Hausdorff, so a space that is not Hausdorff is not metrizable (Metrizable space: a topological space whose topology is induced by some metric; metrizability is topological, the metric is not).
A space is exactly when every singleton is closed (A space is if and only if every singleton is closed, if and only if every finite subset is closed, if and only if its topology contains the cofinite topology).
Verification
In every singleton is closed by [A1], so the space is by [L7], hence .
In distinct points have the disjoint open neighbourhoods and , whose closures are themselves by [A1] and [L3]; so the space is Hausdorff and Urysohn.
In let and be separated, hence disjoint by [L2]; then and are themselves disjoint open sets containing them, so the space is completely normal, and in particular normal, every pair of disjoint closed sets being separated by [L2] and [L3].
In let be closed and ; the function with and for takes values in and is continuous by [L5], and it satisfies and for every , since , so the space is completely regular; taking and shows it is regular.
In the only open set containing is , which also contains , and likewise with and exchanged; so no open set contains exactly one of them and the space is not , hence not , not Hausdorff and not Urysohn, and not metrizable by [L6].
In the closed sets are and by [A2], so and for every nonempty , the smallest closed superset of a nonempty set being .
In let be closed with ; then , so by [A2], and the constant function is continuous by [L5] with and vacuously, so the space is completely regular; and , are disjoint open sets separating from , so it is regular.
In every closed set is open by [A1], hence a by [L4]; with step 1.3 the space is perfectly normal.
In a separated pair has an empty member: if both were nonempty then by step 1.6, contradicting [L2].
By steps 1.1 to 1.5 the discrete space satisfies every axiom listed in claim 1, and the numbered forms follow, each numeral being its adjective together with , which holds by step 1.1.
In , given a separated pair with, say, , the open sets and separate them, and symmetrically when ; so the space is completely normal, and normal, disjoint closed sets being separated by [L2] and step 1.6.
In both closed sets and are open by [A2], hence by [L4]; with step 3.2 the space is perfectly normal.
Steps 3.2, 4.1, 1.7 and 1.5 are claim 2, and step 3.1 is claim 1.
Remarks
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The two extremes bracket the whole page. Every topology on a set lies between the indiscrete and the discrete one in the comparison order (The discrete, indiscrete, cofinite, cocountable, particular-point and Sierpinski topologies), and the two ends of that order sit at opposite ends of the separation hierarchy: the discrete topology satisfies everything, the indiscrete topology on two points satisfies every unnumbered adjective and no numbered axiom at all.
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The indiscrete space is the reason the numerals exist. It refutes at a stroke any reading of "normal", "completely normal", "perfectly normal", "regular" or "completely regular" as implying a separation of points; the main page records the normal case as a false statement, and the argument here shows the same for the other four adjectives.
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The discrete space is metrizable and the indiscrete one is not. Metrizable space: a topological space whose topology is induced by some metric; metrizability is topological, the metric is not records the second, the failure of the Hausdorff condition being an obstruction to metrizability; the first is not needed here, since every axiom was verified directly rather than quoted from the metric theorems of the main page.
Depends on
- The discrete, indiscrete, cofinite, cocountable, particular-point and Sierpinski topologies
- $T_0$ (Kolmogorov) and $T_1$ (Frechet) spaces
- Hausdorff space: distinct points have disjoint open neighbourhoods; every metrizable space is Hausdorff and the indiscrete topology on two points is not
- Urysohn ($T_{2\frac{1}{2}}$) space: distinct points have neighbourhoods with disjoint closures
- Regular spaces and $T_3$ spaces, with the source disagreement over whether regularity includes $T_1$ stated explicitly
- Normal spaces and $T_4$ spaces, with the source disagreement over whether normality includes $T_1$ stated explicitly
- Completely normal ($T_5$) and perfectly normal ($T_6$) spaces
- Completely regular spaces and Tychonoff ($T_{3\frac{1}{2}}$) spaces
- Separated sets: $\overline{A} \cap B = A \cap \overline{B} = \varnothing$
- $G_\delta$ and $F_\sigma$ subsets of a topological space, agreeing with the real-line notion
- Zero sets and cozero sets of continuous real-valued functions
- Metrizable space: a topological space whose topology is induced by some metric; metrizability is topological, the metric is not
- A space is $T_1$ if and only if every singleton is closed, if and only if every finite subset is closed, if and only if its topology contains the cofinite topology
- Continuity of a map of topological spaces at a point and globally
- For a map of spaces the following agree: continuity at every point, preimages of open sets open, preimages of closed sets closed, preimages of subbasic open sets open, and $f(\overline{A}) \subseteq \overline{f(A)}$
- Interior, closure, boundary, exterior, derived set and isolated point in a topological space
- A point lies in the closure of $A$ iff every basic neighbourhood of it meets $A$; the closure is the smallest closed superset and equals $A$ together with its derived set
- Intervals of $\mathbb{R}$: the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
- Topology on a set, open and closed sets, clopen sets, the closed-set axiomatisation, and the coarser/finer comparison
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Sources
- Discrete space (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Trivial topology (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Separation axiom (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Normal space (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)