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General topology Definition

Completely normal space

Builds on Topological spaceNormal spaceSubspace topologyClosureOpen setT1 space

Definition

A topological space XX is completely normal when every subset of XX, with the subspace topology, is a normal space. A completely normal space that is also T1 is called a T5T_5 space.

Remarks

Equivalently, XX is completely normal if and only if the following holds. For all A,B⊆XA, B \subseteq X with A∩B‾=∅A \cap \overline{B} = \varnothing and A‾∩B=∅\overline{A} \cap B = \varnothing, there are disjoint open sets U⊇AU \supseteq A and V⊇BV \supseteq B. It is enough to check that every open subspace is normal.

Example: every metric space (X,d)(X, d) is completely normal. Each subspace is again a metric space, and every metric space is normal.

Non-example: the Tychonoff plank is compact Hausdorff, hence normal, but it is not completely normal. Its subspace obtained by removing one corner point is not normal.

Every perfectly normal space is completely normal.

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  1. Closure concept
  2. Normal space concept
  3. Open set concept
  4. Subspace topology concept
  5. T1 space concept
  6. Topological space concept
  7. Completely normal space definition

Further reading

  1. Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_space
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