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Arbitrary products of regular spaces are regular
Statement
An arbitrary product of regular spaces is regular.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A point in a product of regular spaces and an open set containing .
A basic product-open neighbourhood of restricts only finitely many coordinates and lies inside (The product set of functions choosing a point in each factor, the projections, the box topology, and the product topology as the initial topology of the projections; the empty product is a one-point space).
In a regular factor, open gives open with (A space is regular if and only if every point has a neighbourhood base of closed neighbourhoods, if and only if open gives an open with ).
A family indexed by a natural number whose members are nonempty has a choice function, without any choice axiom (Every natural-number-indexed list of nonempty sets has a choice function on its family of values).
Proof
Choose a basic neighbourhood of inside , where is finite.
Since is finite, [L2] makes these factorwise choices simultaneously: take open with for every .
Put . It is open, contains , and its closure lies in .
The closed-neighbourhood characterization proves regular.
Depends on
- The product set $\prod_{i \in I} X_i$ of functions choosing a point in each factor, the projections, the box topology, and the product topology as the initial topology of the projections; the empty product is a one-point space
- A space is regular if and only if every point has a neighbourhood base of closed neighbourhoods, if and only if $x \in U$ open gives an open $V$ with $x \in V \subseteq \overline{V} \subseteq U$
- Every natural-number-indexed list of nonempty sets has a choice function on its family of values
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Sources
- J. P. May, An Outline Summary of Basic Point Set Topology, §6 (standard reference, not scraped)