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A topological space is Hausdorff if and only if every net has at most one limit
Statement
A topological space is Hausdorff if and only if every net in has at most one limit.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A topological space .
Distinct points in a Hausdorff space have disjoint neighbourhoods (Hausdorff space: distinct points have disjoint open neighbourhoods; every metrizable space is Hausdorff and the indiscrete topology on two points is not).
A net converges to a point exactly when it is eventually in each of that point's neighbourhoods (Convergence and cluster points of a net in a topological space).
Proof
Suppose is Hausdorff and a net converges to both and . If , take disjoint neighbourhoods of and of ; the net is eventually in both, and directedness supplies an index after both thresholds, whose value would lie in .
Conversely, suppose is not Hausdorff. Choose distinct for which every neighbourhood of meets every neighbourhood of , and let , ordered by reverse inclusion in the first two coordinates.
Thus , so every net has at most one limit.
The set is directed: intersect the first two neighbourhood coordinates of two triples and choose a point in their intersection; the resulting triple is above both. The net sending to is eventually in every neighbourhood of and every neighbourhood of , hence converges to both distinct points.
Therefore uniqueness of all net limits forces to be Hausdorff, and the two implications prove the result.
Depends on
Convergence and cluster points of a net in a topological space
Hausdorff space: distinct points have disjoint open neighbourhoods; every metrizable space is Hausdorff and the indiscrete topology on two points is not
Neighbourhood of a point and neighbourhood base, with this library's convention that a neighbourhood need not be open