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The complex coordinate isometry transports topology and affine segments
Statement
Equip with and with the Euclidean metric . The coordinate bijection is a bijective isometry and a homeomorphism. For every and every ,
For each , the image is open, closed, bounded, compact, or connected exactly when has the corresponding property in the indicated ambient metric or topological space. Moreover,
Subsets use their induced metric and topology.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The coordinate map and the two ambient metric spaces.
is the real coordinate plane, with coordinate arithmetic and The complex coordinate map preserves real scalar multiplication: is a bijection preserving addition and real scalar multiplication.
Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space and The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement define balls and open and closed sets; Arbitrary unions and finite intersections of open sets are open, open balls are open and closed balls are closed establishes the metric topology; Isometry, isometric embedding, and the subspace metric on a subset defines isometry; Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological defines homeomorphism.
Interior, closure, boundary, limit point, isolated point and dense subset of a metric space: interior is tested by contained balls, closure by balls meeting the set, and boundary is closure minus interior.
Bounded subset, diameter, distance from a point to a set, and distance between two sets in a metric space: a subset is bounded when it is empty or lies in some open ball.
Open cover, subcover, compact metric space, and compact subset of a metric space and The image of a compact metric space under a continuous map is compact, and so is the image of any compact subset: compact subsets use the induced metric and continuous images of compact subsets are compact.
A continuous image of a connected space is connected, and connectedness is a topological property: a continuous image of a connected subset, with its induced topology, is connected.
Proof
For , [F2] gives , so bijectivity [F1] makes an isometry. For every , exactly when ; hence , and the inverse has the reverse correspondence. If is open, let be the family of all open balls contained in . Every point of lies in one such ball by the definition of openness, and every member of is contained in , so . The ball correspondence maps this union to a union of open Euclidean balls; the arbitrary-union clause of [F3] makes open. The same argument for the inverse shows that both maps are open. Equality of distances gives continuity of both maps with , so the bijection is a homeomorphism by [F3].
Real-linearity [F1] gives for every real .
By the ball correspondence in step 1.1, a ball around is contained in exactly when its image ball is contained in ; likewise a ball around meets exactly when its image ball meets . The definitions in [F4] therefore give the interior and closure identities. Bijectivity preserves set difference, so it also gives the boundary identity. Openness transfers by the same ball test, and closedness transfers because complements correspond under the bijection.
If , then and boundedness, compactness, and connectedness agree for the identical empty subsets. Otherwise, ball correspondence transfers containment in a ball in both directions, proving boundedness. The restrictions and are continuous. Applying the compact-image theorem [F6] to these restrictions proves compactness in both directions; applying the connected-image theorem [F7] proves connectedness in both directions.
Depends on
is the real coordinate plane, with coordinate arithmetic
The complex coordinate map preserves real scalar multiplication
The Euclidean metric, convergence, Cauchy sequences, and continuity on the complex plane
The -norms for rational , and
Isometry, isometric embedding, and the subspace metric on a subset
Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space
The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement
Arbitrary unions and finite intersections of open sets are open, open balls are open and closed balls are closed
Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological
Interior, closure, boundary, limit point, isolated point and dense subset of a metric space
Open cover, subcover, compact metric space, and compact subset of a metric space
Bounded subset, diameter, distance from a point to a set, and distance between two sets in a metric space
A continuous image of a connected space is connected, and connectedness is a topological property
The image of a compact metric space under a continuous map is compact, and so is the image of any compact subset