Paper 4, Section II, E

Metric and Topological Spaces | Part IB, 2018

Let X={2,3,4,5,6,7,8,…}X=\{2,3,4,5,6,7,8, \ldots\} and for each n∈Xn \in X let

Un={d∈X∣d divides n}.U_{n}=\{d \in X \mid d \text { divides } n\} .

Prove that the set of unions of the sets UnU_{n} forms a topology on XX.

Prove or disprove each of the following:

(i) XX is Hausdorff;

(ii) XX is compact.

If YY and ZZ are topological spaces, YY is the union of closed subspaces AA and BB, and f:Y→Zf: Y \rightarrow Z is a function such that both f∣A:A→Z\left.f\right|_{A}: A \rightarrow Z and f∣B:B→Z\left.f\right|_{B}: B \rightarrow Z are continuous, show that ff is continuous. Hence show that XX is path-connected.

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