Sequences and nets in topology

Details Sequences and nets in topology Sequences and nets in topology

2010-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/1006.4472v1

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General Topology

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In a metric space, such as the real numbers with their standard metric, a set A is open if and only if no sequence with terms outside of A has a limit inside A. Moreover, a metric space is compact if and only if every sequence has a converging subsequence. However, in a general topological space these equivalences may fail. Unfortunately this fact is sometimes overlooked in introductory courses on general topology, leaving many students with misconceptions, e.g. that compactness would always be equal to sequence compactness. The aim of this article is to show how sequences might fail to characterize topological properties such as openness, continuity and compactness correctly. Moreover, I will define nets and show how they succeed where sequences fail.

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