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Assuming the ultrafilter lemma, compactness is equivalent to every net having a cluster point, every net having a convergent subnet, every filter having a cluster point, and every ultrafilter converging
Statement
Assume the ultrafilter lemma. For a topological space , the following are equivalent:
- is compact;
- every net in has a cluster point;
- every net in has a convergent subnet;
- every filter on has a cluster point;
- every ultrafilter on converges.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A topological space and the ultrafilter lemma.
Compactness is equivalent to every family of closed sets with the finite-intersection property having nonempty intersection; moreover, a family of subsets of has the finite-intersection property exactly when it is contained in a filter on (A space is compact exactly when every family of closed subsets with the finite intersection property has nonempty intersection, clauses 1 and 2).
A net has as a cluster point exactly when it has a subnet converging to (A point is a cluster point of a net if and only if some subnet converges to it).
A net and its tail filter have the same cluster points, and a filter and its derived net have the same cluster points (The tail-filter and derived-net constructions preserve convergence and cluster points in both directions).
Every filter extends to an ultrafilter (The ultrafilter lemma, from the Axiom of Choice: every filter extends to an ultrafilter), and every cluster point of an ultrafilter is its limit (Every cluster point of an ultrafilter is a limit of that ultrafilter).
Proof
Suppose is compact and is a filter. The closed family has the finite-intersection property, because a finite intersection of members of is nonempty and is contained in the corresponding intersection of closures. By [L1], choose .
If every filter has a cluster point, apply this to a net's tail filter and use [L3]; hence 4 implies 2. By [L2], conditions 2 and 3 are equivalent.
Conversely, if every net has a cluster point and is a filter, its derived net has a cluster point, which is also a cluster point of by [L3]. Hence 2 implies 4.
Condition 4 implies 5 because an ultrafilter is a filter and [L4] turns its cluster point into a limit.
Suppose every ultrafilter converges and let be a family of closed subsets of with the finite-intersection property. Clause 2 of [L1] gives a filter containing , and [L4] extends it to an ultrafilter .
Every neighbourhood of meets every , since ; thus is a cluster point of . Hence 1 implies 4.
Let be a limit of . For , every neighbourhood of belongs to and meets ; therefore . Thus , and [L1] gives compactness.
The implications in steps 2.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 2.2 establish all five equivalences.
Depends on
- A point is a cluster point of a net if and only if some subnet converges to it
- The tail-filter and derived-net constructions preserve convergence and cluster points in both directions
- Every cluster point of an ultrafilter is a limit of that ultrafilter
- The ultrafilter lemma, from the Axiom of Choice: every filter extends to an ultrafilter
- A space is compact exactly when every family of closed subsets with the finite intersection property has nonempty intersection
- Open cover, subcover, and compact topological space; a compact subset is a subspace that is compact in its own right
- Convergence and cluster points of a filter on a topological space
Used by
- Assuming the ultrafilter lemma, a space is compact if and only if every universal net converges Corollary
- The coordinate-reading sequence in a compact binary cube has a convergent subnet but no convergent subsequence Example
- Assuming the ultrafilter lemma, an arbitrary product of compact Hausdorff spaces is compact Theorem
- Assuming the ultrafilter lemma, every complete and totally bounded uniform space is compact Theorem
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Sources
- WVU Math 581 Topology I (standard reference, not scraped)
- Net (mathematics) (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Compact space (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Filter (set theory) (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Boolean prime ideal theorem (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)