Definition:T5 Space/Definition 1

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Definition

Let $T = \struct {S, \tau}$ be a topological space.


$\struct {S, \tau}$ is a $T_5$ space if and only if:

$\forall A, B \subseteq S, A^- \cap B = A \cap B^- = \O: \exists U, V \in \tau: A \subseteq U, B \subseteq V, U \cap V = \O$

That is:

$\struct {S, \tau}$ is a $T_5$ space when for any two separated sets $A, B \subseteq S$ there exist disjoint open sets $U, V \in \tau$ containing $A$ and $B$ respectively.


Variants of Name

From about 1970, treatments of this subject started to refer to this as a completely normal space, and what is defined on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ as a completely normal space as a $T_5$ space.

However, the names are to a fair extent arbitrary and a matter of taste, as there appears to be no completely satisfactory system for naming all these various Tychonoff separation axioms.


The system as used here broadly follows 1978: Lynn Arthur Steen and J. Arthur Seebach, Jr.: Counterexamples in Topology (2nd ed.).

The system used on the Separation axiom page at Wikipedia differs from this.


Also see

  • Results about $T_5$ spaces can be found here.


Sources