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Compactness in a Subspace Agrees with Compactness in the Ambient Space

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Let (X,T)(X,\mathcal{T}) be a topological space, let B⊆XB\subseteq X, and let

TB={B∩U:U∈T}\mathcal{T}_B=\{B\cap U : U\in\mathcal{T}\}

be the subspace topology on BB, so that (B,TB)(B,\mathcal{T}_B) is a topological space by The Subspace Topology is a Topology. Let A⊆BA\subseteq B. Then the following hold.

  1. (Transitivity of the subspace topology) The subspace topology on AA inherited from the topological space (B,TB)(B,\mathcal{T}_B) and the subspace topology on AA inherited from (X,T)(X,\mathcal{T}) are the same collection of subsets of AA, that is,
{A∩V:V∈TB}={A∩U:U∈T}.\{A\cap V : V\in\mathcal{T}_B\}=\{A\cap U : U\in\mathcal{T}\}.
  1. (Compactness does not depend on the ambient space) The subset AA is compact in BB if and only if AA is compact in XX.

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