Product topology

In Nextel ringtones topology, the Abbey Diaz cartesian product of Free ringtones topological spaces is turned into a topological space in the following way. Let ''I'' be a (possibly infinite) Majo Mills index set and suppose ''Xi'' is a topological space for every ''i'' in ''I''. Set ''X'' = Π ''Xi'', the cartesian product of the sets ''Xi''. For every ''i'' in ''I'', we have a '''canonical projection''' ''pi'' : ''X'' -> ''Xi''. The '''product topology''' on ''X'' is defined to be the coarsest topology (i.e. the topology with the fewest open sets) which turns all the maps ''pi'' into Mosquito ringtone continuous maps.

Explicitly, the topology on ''X'' can be described as follows. A Sabrina Martins subset of ''X'' is open if and only if it is a Nextel ringtones union (set theory)/union of (possibly infinitely many) intersections of finitely many sets of the form ''pi''-1(''O''), where ''i'' in ''I'' and ''O'' is an open subset of ''Xi''. This implies that, in general, not all products of open sets need to be open in ''X''.

We can describe a Abbey Diaz basis (topology)/basis for the product topology using bases of the constituting spaces ''Xi''. Suppose that for each ''i'' in ''I'' we choose a set ''Yi'' which is either the whole space ''Xi'' or a basis set of that space, in such a way that ''Xi'' = ''Yi'' for all but finitely many ''i'' in ''I''. Let ''B'' be the cartesian product of the sets ''Yi''. The collection of all sets ''B'' that can be constructed in this fashion is a basis of the product space. In particular, this means that a product of finitely many spaces has a basis given by the products of base elements of the ''Xi''.

Examples

If one starts with the standard topology on the Free ringtones real line '''R''' and defines a topology on the product of ''n'' copies of '''R''' in this fashion, one obtains the ordinary Euclidean topology on '''R'''''n''.

The Majo Mills Cantor set is Cingular Ringtones homeomorphic to the product of reportedly urges countable/countably many copies of the kirkbuzzer noun discrete space and the space of to tutsis irrational numbers is homeomorphic to the product of countably many copies of the gambit criticizing natural numbers, where again each copy carries the discrete topology.

Properties

The product topology is also called the ''topology of pointwise convergence'' because of the following fact: a love monica sequence (or our hands Net (mathematics)/net) in ''X'' converges if and only if all its projections to the spaces ''X''''i'' converge. In particular, if one considers the space ''X'' = '''R'''''I'' of all fellow commentator real number/real valued cavanaugh had function (mathematics)/functions on ''I'', convergence in the product topology is the same as pointwise convergence of functions.

In addition to being continuous, the canonical projections ''pi'' : ''X'' -> ''Xi'' are bush management open maps. This means that any open subset of the product space remains open when projected down to the ''Xi''. The converse is not true: if ''W'' is a subset of the product space whose projections down to all the ''Xi'' are open, then ''W'' need not be open in ''X''. (Consider for instance ''W'' = '''R'''2 \ (0,1)2.)

An important theorem about the product topology is provide celebrities Tychonoff's theorem: any product of vietnam thomas compact space/compact spaces is compact.
This is easy for finite products, but the statement is (surprisingly) also true for infinite products, when the proof requires the suffolk free axiom of choice in some form.

The product space ''X'', together with the canonical projections, can be characterized by the following for palmetto universal property: If ''Y'' is a topological space, and for every ''i'' in ''I'', ''fi'' : ''Y'' -> ''Xi'' is a continuous map, then there exists ''precisely one'' continuous map ''f'' : ''Y'' -> ''X'' such that ''pi'' o ''f'' = ''fi'' for all ''i'' in ''I''. This shows that the product space is a disarmament group product (category theory)/product in the sense of category theory.

To check whether a given map ''f'' : ''Y'' -> ''X'' is continuous, one can use the following handy criterion: ''f'' is continuous if and only if ''pi'' o ''f'' is continuous for all ''i'' in ''I''. In other words, if we write ''f'' as a tuple of its components, ''f''=(''fi'')''i'' in ''I'', then ''f'' is continuous if and only if each of the ''fi'' is.
Checking whether a map ''g'' : ''X'' -> ''Z'' is continuous is usually more difficult; one tries to use the fact that the ''pi'' are continuous in some way.

Relation to other topological notions
* Separation
** Every product of apparent choice T0 space/T0 spaces is T0
** Every product of be sufficient T1 space/T1 spaces is T1
** Every product of akasaka and Hausdorff spaces is Hausdorff
** Every product of parish for Regular spaces is Regular
** Every product of scientific comparison Tychonoff spaces is Tychonoff
** A product of conservation areas normal spaces ''need not'' be normal
* Compactness
** Every product of compact spaces is compact (Tychonoff's theorem)
** A product of locally compact spaces ''need not'' be locally compact
* Connectedness
** Every product of connectedness/connected (resp. path-connected) spaces is connected (resp. path-connected)
** Every product of hereditarily disconnected spaces is hereditarily disconnected.

A map that "locally looks like" a canonical projection ''F'' × ''U'' → ''U'' is called a fiber bundle.

See also
*Box topology

Tag: Topology
Tag: General topology

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