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Pseudocompact space: every continuous real-valued function has bounded image
Definition
A topological space is pseudocompact when every continuous map (Continuity of a map of topological spaces at a point and globally) has bounded image: there are reals with for every (Lower bound, bounded below, bounded set).
A subset of a topological space is pseudocompact when , equipped with its subspace topology, is pseudocompact (Subspace topology: the traces of the open sets, its closed sets and its bases, the continuity of the inclusion, and the characteristic property of a map into a subspace).
Remarks
No separation axiom is part of this definition. Some texts reserve the word for completely regular spaces; here it names exactly the bounded-image condition just stated.