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Problem Set 3: Limits and Closures: Your Name: Due: Thursday, February 18

This document contains 5 problems related to topology: 1) Properties of unions and intersections of sets in a topological space X. 2) Showing that a specified set τ is a topology on a set X, and describing boundaries and limits in this topology. 3) Proving that a metric topology is Hausdorff. 4) Properties of continuous and open maps between topological spaces. 5) Defining quotient topologies on a space X given an equivalence relation, and properties of the quotient map including universal properties and an example involving the line with double origin.

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Problem Set 3: Limits and Closures: Your Name: Due: Thursday, February 18

This document contains 5 problems related to topology: 1) Properties of unions and intersections of sets in a topological space X. 2) Showing that a specified set τ is a topology on a set X, and describing boundaries and limits in this topology. 3) Proving that a metric topology is Hausdorff. 4) Properties of continuous and open maps between topological spaces. 5) Defining quotient topologies on a space X given an equivalence relation, and properties of the quotient map including universal properties and an example involving the line with double origin.

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Problem Set 3: Limits and closures

Your name:
Due: Thursday, February 18
Problem 1 (8). Let X be a topological space and A, B X.
a. Show that A B = A B.
b. Show that A B A B.
c. Give an example of X, A, and B such that A B 6= A B.
d. Let Y be a subset of X such that A Y . Denote by A the closure of A
in X, and equip Y with the subspace topology. Describe the closure of A
in Y in terms of A and Y .
Problem 2 (8). Let X be a set and let
= {U P(X) : X \ U is finite, or U = }.
a. Show that is a topology on X. This topology is called the cofinite
topology (or finite complement topology).
b. Let X be a set equipped with the cofinite topology. Let A X. Describe
the boundary A of A.
c. Suppose X = N. To which points does the sequence (n)nN converge?
Problem 3 (8). Let (X, d) be a metric space. Prove that the metric topology
on X is Hausdorff.
Problem 4 (8). Let X and Y be topological spaces. A map f : X Y is
called open if for every open U X, the image f (U ) is open in Y .
a. Consider X Y equipped with the product topology. Show that the map
p1 : X Y X, (x, y) 7 x is both continuous and open.
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b. Consider X ` Y equipped with the sum topology. Show that the map
i1 : X X Y, x 7 (x, 0) is both continuous and open.
Problem 5 (12). An equivalence relation on a set X is a subset R X X
such that
for each x X, (x, x) R.
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for every x, y X, if (x, y) R, then (y, x) R.


for every x, y, z X if (x, y), (y, z) R then (x, z) R.
We write x R y as an abbreviation for (x, y) R (and sometimes just write
x y). For x X, the set
[x] = {y X : y x}
is called the equivalence class of x. We denote by
X/ = {[x] : x X},
the set of equivalence classes of elements of X, called the quotient of X by .
Suppose now that X is a topological space with an equivalence relation ,
and consider the map
: X X/ , x 7 [x].
a. Declare a subset U X/ to be open if 1 (U ) X is open. Show that
this defines a topology on X/, and that the map is continuous. This
topology is called the quotient topology.
b. Is the map always an open map? Justify your claim with proof or
counterexample.
c. Let Y be another topological space and let f : X Y be a continuous
map such that f (x1 ) = f (x2 ) whenever x1 x2 . Show that there exists
a unique map f : X/ Y such that f = f , and show that f is
continuous. This is called the universal property of the quotient topology.
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d. Consider R R with the sum topology, with the equivalence relation
(x, 0) (y, 1) iff x 6= 0 and x = y.
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The topological space Q = R R/ is called the line with double origin.
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Which points in Q are the limit of the sequence n 7 [( n+1
, 0)]? Is Q a
Hausdorff space?

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