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A nonempty compact Hausdorff space carries exactly one compatible uniformity
Statement
A nonempty compact Hausdorff topology carries exactly one compatible uniformity.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A nonempty compact Hausdorff topology on .
Its open covers form a compatible uniform-cover structure (The covers admitting an open refinement form a compatible uniform-cover structure on a nonempty compact Hausdorff space; in particular every open cover is uniform).
Uniform-cover and entourage structures determine each other (On a nonempty set, entourage uniformities and uniform-cover structures determine one another).
A compatible uniformity is one whose induced topology is the given topology (Uniformizable and separated-uniformizable topological spaces).
Entourage balls form neighbourhood bases, symmetric entourages have square roots, and compactness supplies finite subcovers (The sets containing an entourage ball about each of their points form a topology, Every uniformity has a base of symmetric entourages, Open cover, subcover, and compact topological space; a compact subset is a subspace that is compact in its own right).
Every open cover of a compact Hausdorff space has a finite open star-refinement (Every open cover of a compact Hausdorff space has a finite open star-refinement).
Proof
Apply [L2] to the cover structure of [L1] to obtain one compatible entourage uniformity.
Let be any compatible uniformity. Each entourage-ball cover admits an open refinement because every ball is a neighbourhood in the induced topology, so every cover uniform for admits an open refinement.
Conversely, let be an open cover and take a finite open star-refinement by [L5]. Form the family of all open sets for which there are , , and a symmetric entourage satisfying and . This family covers : given , first take containing it, then use compatibility and a symmetric square root to obtain such and an open neighbourhood . Compactness gives finitely many witnesses covering . Put . If and , then symmetry gives , so . Hence the -ball cover refines , and therefore refines . Thus every open cover is uniform for .
By steps 1.2 and 1.3, the cover structure associated to consists exactly of the covers admitting an open refinement, which is the structure in [L1].
The dictionary [L2] then recovers the same entourage uniformity from either structure, proving uniqueness.
Depends on
The covers admitting an open refinement form a compatible uniform-cover structure on a nonempty compact Hausdorff space; in particular every open cover is uniform
On a nonempty set, entourage uniformities and uniform-cover structures determine one another
Uniform space in the entourage formulation
Every open cover of a compact Hausdorff space has a finite open star-refinement
Every uniformity has a base of symmetric entourages
The sets containing an entourage ball about each of their points form a topology
Open cover, subcover, and compact topological space; a compact subset is a subspace that is compact in its own right
Uniformizable and separated-uniformizable topological spaces