Tychonoff space
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A Tychonoff space is a topological space that is both completely regular and Hausdorff, forming a central class in general topology with strong separation and embedding properties.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
separation axiom
ⓘ
topological space property ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tikhonov space
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
completely regular Hausdorff space ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
admits a topological embedding into a product of copies of the real line R
ⓘ
admits a topological embedding into a product of unit intervals [0,1] ⓘ for every closed set F and point x not in F there exists a continuous f:X→[0,1] with f(x)=0 and f(F)={1} ⓘ points and closed sets can be separated by continuous real-valued functions ⓘ |
| closedUnder |
taking continuous images that are Hausdorff
ⓘ
taking products ⓘ taking subspaces ⓘ taking sums (topological disjoint unions) ⓘ |
| definedAs | a topological space that is both completely regular and Hausdorff ⓘ |
| everySpaceHas | a Stone–Čech compactification if and only if it is Tychonoff ⓘ |
| generalizes | metric space separation properties ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedConstruction | Stone–Čech compactification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
continuous real-valued functions separate points from closed sets
ⓘ
the topology is determined by its ring of continuous real-valued functions C(X) ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalNote |
the separation axiom T3.5 is often identified with being Tychonoff
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the term Tikhonov space is common in Russian and some European literature ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
Hausdorff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tychonoff separation axiom T3.5 NERFINISHED ⓘ completely regular ⓘ |
| implies |
Hausdorff space
ⓘ
Kolmogorov space NERFINISHED ⓘ T1 space ⓘ completely regular space ⓘ regular space ⓘ |
| isImpliedBy |
Polish space
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compact Hausdorff space ⓘ completely metrizable space ⓘ locally compact Hausdorff space ⓘ metric space ⓘ normal completely regular Hausdorff space ⓘ normed vector space with its norm topology ⓘ topological manifold ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Andrey Tychonoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsCentralRoleIn |
the representation of spaces as subspaces of cubes [0,1]^I
ⓘ
the theory of compactifications ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Tietze extension theorem
NERFINISHED
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Tychonoff product theorem NERFINISHED ⓘ Urysohn lemma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
functional analysis
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general topology ⓘ measure theory ⓘ topological algebra ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hausdorff space
subject surface form:
Hausdorff space