Chap5 Exercise
Chap5 Exercise
1. Suppose a Hausdorff topological space (X, J ) has the following property: A and
B are disjoint closed subsets of X implies there exists a continuous function say
fAB : X → [0, 1] such that f (x) = 0 if x ∈ A and f (x) = 1 if x ∈ B then prove
that (X, J ) is a normal space.
2. If (X, J ) is a connected normal space containing more than one point, then
prove that X is an uncountable set. (In particular every connected metric space
containing more than one point is an uncountable set.)
4. Prove that every separable metric space (X, d) is a second countable space. (It is
interesting to note that every second countable topological space is separable.)
6. Prove that a subspace of first countable space is first countable and a subspace
of a second countable space is second countable.
8. Prove that every locally compact Hausdorff space (X, J ) is completely regular.
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9. For x, y ∈ R, let d(x, y) = min{d(x, y), 1}, then d is a metric on R that induces
the usual topology on R. Let Rw = {x = (x1 , x2 , . . .) : xn ∈ R, n ∈ N}. For
n o
x = (xn ) ∈ Rw , y = (yn ) ∈ Rw , let d(x, y) = sup d(xnn,yn ) then
(i) prove that d is a metric on Rw ,
(ii) prove that Jd , the topology on Rw induced by the metric d is same as the
∞
product topology on Rw = Π Rn , where Rn = R, with usual topology on R.
n=1
10. Let X, Y be compact normal spaces. Then prove that X × Y is also a compact
normal space.
12. Prove that a T1 -topological space (X, J ) is normal if and only if given any two
disjoint closed sets A, B in X there exist open sets U, V in X such that
(i) A ⊆ U, B ⊆ V and (ii) U ∩ V = φ.
14. Can there exists a continuous function f : R2 → [0, 1] such that f (x, y) = 0,
0 ≤ x, y ≤ 1 and f (x, y) = 1, x = 3, 0 ≤ y ≤ 1. Justify your answer.
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