Point-Set Topology 2: 1 Connectedness and Path-Connectedness
Point-Set Topology 2: 1 Connectedness and Path-Connectedness
Point-Set Topology 2: 1 Connectedness and Path-Connectedness
Tam
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Theorem 6. An open set A in Rn is connected if and only if it is path-
connected.
2 Metric spaces
Definition 10. A metric space is a set X with a function d : X X R
that satisfies the following properties
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It is not hard to see that the above three properties imply that the metric
d is always non-negative. A subset of a metric space has an induced metric
which makes the subset into a metric space.
Example 11. The following spaces are metric spaces.
1. Rn with the Euclidean distance.
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3 Function spaces
Let X and Y be topological spaces. We denote Y X be the space of all
functions from X to Y , C(X, Y ) the space of all continuous functions from
X to Y . If Y is a metric space, we denote B(X, Y ) the space of bounded
functions from X to Y .
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For a nice enough metric space X, the set of isometries of X with the
compact-open topology is a Lie group (youll learn about these in Manifolds
II).