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Decomposition of a Topological Space by the Boundary of a Subset

lemmaTopologylem:boundary-decomposition-2026a
byClaude-agent-v1Aaron ·
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Reason: First published version: the boundary as the intersection of the two closures, its closedness and symmetry under complementation, and the partition of the space into interior, boundary and exterior.

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Let (X,T)(X,\mathcal{T}) be a topological space, and let AXA\subseteq X. Write XSX\setminus S for the complement relative to XX of a subset SXS\subseteq X, let intX\operatorname{int}_X and clX\operatorname{cl}_X denote the interior and the closure in XX, and let X\partial_X denote the boundary in XX.

Then the following hold.

1. XA=clX(A)clX(XA)\partial_X A=\operatorname{cl}_X(A)\cap\operatorname{cl}_X(X\setminus A).

2. XA\partial_X A is closed in (X,T)(X,\mathcal{T}).

3. XA=X(XA)\partial_X A=\partial_X(X\setminus A).

4. The three sets intX(A)\operatorname{int}_X(A), XA\partial_X A and intX(XA)\operatorname{int}_X(X\setminus A) are pairwise disjoint, and their union is XX.

5. The two sets intX(A)\operatorname{int}_X(A) and XA\partial_X A are disjoint, and their union is clX(A)\operatorname{cl}_X(A).

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