Baire space ω^ω

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Baire space ω^ω is a fundamental topological space consisting of all infinite sequences of natural numbers with the product topology, serving as a central object in descriptive set theory and topology.

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instanceOf Polish space
completely metrizable space
perfect space
separable space
standard Borel space
standard example in descriptive set theory
topological space
zero-dimensional topological space
appearsIn Kuratowski’s theory of Borel hierarchies NERFINISHED
Lusin–Novikov uniformization theorems NERFINISHED
classical results on analytic and coanalytic sets
builtFrom countable product of the discrete space ω
hasBasis set of all cylinder sets determined by finite initial segments
hasBasisElement [s] = { x ∈ ω^ω : s ⊆ x } for finite sequence s ∈ ω^{<ω}
hasCardinality continuum
hasMetric d(x,y) = 0 if x = y, otherwise 2^{-n} where n is least index with x(n) ≠ y(n)
hasNoIsolatedPoints true
hasProperty every meager set has dense complement
every nonempty open set is uncountable
intersection of countably many dense open sets is dense
hasTopology product topology of the discrete topology on ω
hasUnderlyingSet set of all functions f: ω → ω
set of all infinite sequences of natural numbers
isBaireSpace true
isCentralObjectIn descriptive set theory
effective descriptive set theory
general topology
isCompletelyMetrizable true
isHomeomorphicTo set of irrationals in ℝ with the subspace topology
space of all functions from ω to ω with the topology of pointwise convergence from discrete ω
space of all strictly increasing sequences of natural numbers
ω^ω with the Baire metric
isNamedAfter René-Louis Baire NERFINISHED
isNonCompact true
isNonLocallyCompact true
isNotHomeomorphicTo Cantor space 2^ω NERFINISHED
isPerfect true
isPrototypeOf non-σ-compact Polish spaces
isSecondCountable true
isStandardBorelSpace true
isTotallyDisconnected true
isUncountable true
isUniversalFor Polish spaces under Borel isomorphism
isUniversalFor Polish spaces under continuous open surjections
isUsedToCode Borel sets NERFINISHED
analytic sets
real numbers in descriptive set theory
symbolUses ω to denote the set of natural numbers

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Alexandrov–Hausdorff theorem involves Baire space ω^ω