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The Restriction of a Metric to a Subset Induces the Subspace Topology

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Let (X,d)(X,d) be a metric space, let A⊆XA\subseteq X, and let R\mathbb{R} be the set of real numbers. Let dA:A×A→Rd_A:A\times A\to\mathbb{R} be the restriction of dd, that is, the function with dA(a,b)=d(a,b)d_A(a,b)=d(a,b) for all a,b∈Aa,b\in A. Equip XX with the collection Td\mathcal{T}_d of all subsets open in (X,d)(X,d), which is a topology by Metric Open Sets Form a Topology, and let

TA={A∩U:U∈Td}\mathcal{T}_A=\{A\cap U: U\in\mathcal{T}_d\}

be the subspace topology on AA. Then the following hold.

1. (Restriction is a metric) dAd_A is a metric on AA, so that (A,dA)(A,d_A) is a metric space.

2. (Agreement of topologies) A subset V⊆AV\subseteq A is open in the metric space (A,dA)(A,d_A) if and only if V∈TAV\in\mathcal{T}_A. Consequently the collection of subsets of AA that are open in (A,dA)(A,d_A) is exactly TA\mathcal{T}_A.

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