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This document is a problem sheet for a General Topology course scheduled for Spring 2025. It includes two main problems related to identifying non-trivial bases for various topologies and demonstrating the equivalence of topologies derived from different metrics on R2. The problems are not for submission and are due on January 11, 2025.

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This document is a problem sheet for a General Topology course scheduled for Spring 2025. It includes two main problems related to identifying non-trivial bases for various topologies and demonstrating the equivalence of topologies derived from different metrics on R2. The problems are not for submission and are due on January 11, 2025.

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GENERAL TOPOLOGY, SPRING 2025

PROBLEM SHEET 2

Due date : Not for submission.

1. List of problems
(1) Find a non-trivial (B ̸= τ ) basis B, if possible, for each of the following
topologies. Justify your claim.
(i) (X, d) is a metric space and τ is the metric topology coming from d.
(ii) R with co-finite topology :
τ := all subsets of R with finite complement ∪ {∅}.
(iii) R with co-countable topology :
τ := all subsets of R with countable complement ∪ {∅}.
(iv) (R, τ ) where τ is coming from the discrete metric d :
(
̸ y;
1, if x =
d(x, y) :=
0, if x = y.
(2) For each 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ let τp be the topology on R2 coming from the metric
dp , where for x = (x1 , x2 ), y = (y1 , y2 ) ∈ R2 ,
( 1
(|x1 − y1 |p + |x2 − y2 |p ) p , if 1 ≤ p < ∞;
dp (x, y) :=
max(|x1 − y1 |, |x2 − y2 |), if p = ∞.
Show that these are all same topologies i.e. τp1 = τp2 for each p1 , p2 .

Date: January 11, 2025.


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