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Interior Points in the Metric Topology are Exactly the Centres of Contained Closed Balls

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Reason: First published version: a point of a metric space is an interior point of a subset, for the metric topology, exactly when some closed ball about it is contained in that subset.

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Let (X,d)(X,d) be a metric space and let Td\mathcal{T}_{d} be the collection of the subsets of XX that are open in the metric space (X,d)(X,d); by Metric Open Sets Form a Topology the pair (X,Td)(X,\mathcal{T}_{d}) is a topological space, and interiors below are taken in it, in the sense of Interior of a Subset of a Topological Space. Open balls Bd(x,r)B_{d}(x,r) are those of Open Ball in a Metric Space and closed balls Bˉd(x,s)\bar{B}_{d}(x,s) those of Closed Ball in a Metric Space. Let R\mathbb{R} be the set of real numbers with the order \le of its ordered field structure, and for a,bRa,b\in\mathbb{R} write a<ba<b to mean that aba\le b and aba\ne b.

Let AXA\subseteq X and let xXx\in X. Then the following hold.

1. (An interior point is the centre of a contained closed ball) If xintX(A)x\in\operatorname{int}_{X}(A), then there is sRs\in\mathbb{R} with 0<s0<s and

Bˉd(x,s)A.\bar{B}_{d}(x,s)\subseteq A .

2. (Conversely) If there is sRs\in\mathbb{R} with 0<s0<s and Bˉd(x,s)A\bar{B}_{d}(x,s)\subseteq A, then xintX(A)x\in\operatorname{int}_{X}(A).

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