Interior Points in the Metric Topology are Exactly the Centres of Contained Closed Balls
lemmaAnalysisTopologylem:interior-metric-closed-ball-criterion-2026aLet be a metric space and let be the collection of the subsets of that are open in the metric space ; by Metric Open Sets Form a Topology the pair 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 are those of Open Ball in a Metric Space and closed balls those of Closed Ball in a Metric Space. Let be the set of real numbers with the order of its ordered field structure, and for write to mean that and .
Let and let . Then the following hold.
1. (An interior point is the centre of a contained closed ball) If , then there is with and
2. (Conversely) If there is with and , then .
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