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A bump in the road in elementary topology

General Topology 2018-02-14 v1

Abstract

We observe a subtle and apparently generally unnoticed difficulty with the definition of the relative topology on a subset of a topological space, and with the weak topology defined by a function.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.04689,
  title  = {A bump in the road in elementary topology},
  author = {Bruce Blackadar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04689},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

3 pages. Written 1/24/17 but not posted due to double-blind refereeing

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