10-327/Homework Assignment 4

DBN: Classes: 2010-11: 10-327/Navigation Additions to the MAT 327 web site no longer count towards good deed points # Week of... Notes and Links 1 Sep 13 About This Class, Monday - Continuity and open sets, Thursday - topologies, continuity, bases. 2 Sep 20 Monday - More on bases, Thursdsay - Products, Subspaces, Closed sets, HW1, HW1 Solutions 3 Sep 27 Monday - the Cantor set, closures, Thursday, Class Photo, HW2, HW2 Solutions 4 Oct 4 Monday - the axiom of choice and infinite product spaces, Thursday - the box and the product topologies, metric spaces, HW3, HW3 Solutions 5 Oct 11 Monday is Thanksgiving. Thursday - metric spaces, sequencial closures, various products. Final exam's date announced on Friday. 6 Oct 18 Monday - connectedness in ${\mathbb {R} }$, HW4, HW4 Solutions, Thursday - connectedness, path-connectedness and products 7 Oct 25 Monday - Compactness of $[0,1]$, Term Test on Thursday, TT Solutions 8 Nov 1 Monday - compact is closed and bounded, maximal values, HW5, HW5 Solutions, Wednesday was the last date to drop this course, Thursday - compactness of products and in metric spaces, the FIP 9 Nov 8 Monday-Tuesday is Fall Break, Thursday - Tychonoff and a taste of Stone-Cech, HW6, HW6 Solutions 10 Nov 15 Monday - generalized limits, Thursday - Normal spaces and Urysohn's lemma, HW7, HW7 Solutions 11 Nov 22 Monday - $T_{3.5}$ and $I^{A}$, Thursday - Tietze's theorem 12 Nov 29 Monday - compactness in metric spaces, HW8, HW8 Solutions, Thursday - completeness and compactness 13 Dec 6 Monday - Baire spaces and no-where differentiable functions, Wednesday - Hilbert's 13th problem; also see December 2010 Schedule R Dec 13 See December 2010 Schedule F Dec 20 Final exam, Monday December 20, 2PM-5PM, at BR200 Register of Good Deeds Add your name / see who's in! See Hilbert's 13th

Reading

Read sections 23 through 25 in Munkres' textbook (Topology, 2nd edition). Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read. Also, preread sections 26 through 27, just to get a feel for the future.

Doing

Solve and submit problems 1-3 and 8-10 Munkres' book, pages 157-158.

Due date

This assignment is due at the end of class on Monday, October 25, 2010.

Suggestions for Good Deeds

Annotate our Monday videos (starting with Video:  Topology-100927) in a manner similar to (say)  AKT-090910-1, and/or add links to the blackboard shots, in a manner similar to  Alekseev-1006-1. Also, make constructive suggestions to me, Dror and / or the videographer, Qian (Sindy) Li, on how to improve the videos and / or the software used to display them. Note that "constructive" means also, "something that can be implemented relatively easily in the real world, given limited resources".

Dror's notes above / Student's notes below

Questions

1. Hi, quick question. I am wondering if the term test will cover the material on this assignment, or only the material before the assignment. Thanks! Jason.
   • The term test will cover everything including Monday October 25 and including this assignment. Drorbn 13:42, 23 October 2010 (EDT)
2. In EXAMPLE 7 on page 151 Munkres claims that Rn~ is ['clearly' :)] homeomorphic to Rn: where Rn~ consists of all sequences x=(x1,x2,x3,...) with xi=0 for i>n, and Rn consists of all sequences x=(x1,x2,...xn). Why are they homeomorphic ?? Thank you kindly. Oliviu.

RE: 2) Let $F:{\tilde {R}}^{n}\rightarrow R^{n}$ be defined as $F(x)=\prod _{i=1}^{n}\pi _{i}(x)$ and let $F^{-1}:R^{n}\rightarrow {\tilde {R}}^{n}$ be defined as $F^{-1}(x)=\prod _{i\in Z_{+}}f_{i}(x)$ where $f_{i}(x)=\pi _{i}(x)$ if $1\leq i\leq n$ and $f_{i}(x)=0$ otherwise. Then both $F$ and $F^{-1}$ are continuous, because we are working in the product topology and the component functions, namely the projection function and constant function are continuous. Also $F$ is a bijection because $F(F^{-1}(x_{1},\ldots ,x_{n}))=(x_{1},\ldots ,x_{n})$ and $F^{-1}(F(x_{1},\ldots ,x_{n},0,0,\ldots ))=(x_{1},\ldots ,x_{n},0,0,\ldots )$, i.e $F$ has a left and right inverse. So $F$ is a homeomorphism between the two spaces. Quick question is there a nicer way of writing math than using the math tag? Ian 16:03, 22 October 2010 (EDT)

3)Question. Suppose we have a function f going from topological space X to Y which is not onto and a function g going from Y to Z. Could I still define the composition of f and g? i.e. g circle f? -Kai Xwbdsb 19:19, 22 October 2010 (EDT)

• If I understand your question, I don't see why not...think about $\mathbb {R}$ for example. $f(x)=x^{2}$ is not onto, then let $g(x)=e^{x}$ then g compose f is $e^{x^{2}}$ - John
  • I agree but look at munkre's page 17 last sentence. Note that g compose with f is defined only when the range of f equals the domain of g. So I just want to confirm with Dror if there is something wrong here.
    • Touche, I see your point...that is strange - John

4)Question about the proof for [0,1] being connected. A few details are omitted. why would a closed subset of [0,1] contain its supremum? Also why [0,g_0] being a subset of A follows automatically after we showed that g_0 is in A? -Kai

• 1. Suppose $S$ is closed in $[0,1].\Rightarrow S^{C}$ is open. If $sup(S)=\alpha \notin S\Rightarrow \exists r>0$ s.t. $B(\alpha ,r)\subset S^{C}\Rightarrow \alpha -0.5r\in S^{C}\Rightarrow \alpha -0.5r<\alpha$ is an upper bound for S. $\Rightarrow \Leftarrow$
• 2. Recall that $G=\{g|[0,g]\subset A\};g_{0}=sup(G)\Rightarrow \forall g<g_{0},[0,g]\subset A\Rightarrow [0,g_{0})\subset A$. So, if $g_{0}\in A\Rightarrow [0,g_{0}]\subset A$. -Frank Fzhao 23:50, 22 October 2010 (EDT)
  • Thanks Frank. But I don't think your solution is convincing enough. \alpha - 0.5r is indeed not in S but why can you say it is an upper bound for S? Remember S could be rather complicated set all you know is that it is closed.

for 2 why is \Rightarrow \forall g < g_0, [0,g]? even if g_0 is sup(G) that does not mean anything less than g_0 would be in G. Consider [0,1] union {3}.

• Well, for the first question, not only is $\alpha -0.5r$ not in S, but neither is anything in $B(\alpha ,r)$, since $S^{C}$ is open. There can be no elements $\geq \alpha$ in S because it's the supremum. Recall also we're working in the Reals. $\Rightarrow [\alpha -0.5r,\infty )\subset S^{C}.$

• For the second question, notice that the supremum is the least upper bound (of G), so $\forall r>0,\exists g\in G\cap B(g_{0},r)\Rightarrow [0,g]\subset A\Rightarrow [0,g']\subset A,\forall g'<g\Rightarrow g'\in G\Rightarrow \forall g<g_{0}$, take $r=0.5(g_{0}-g)\Rightarrow \exists a\in (g_{0}-r,g_{0})\cap G,\Rightarrow [0,g]\subset [0,a]\subset A.$

Specifically, in your counterexample, if 3 is in G, then anything less than 3 is also in G by construction of G.

• Perhaps (I'm guessing here) you might have found supremum to be a confusing notion. If this is the case, have no fear, there's a chapter on supremum in Spivak's book Calculus. You can probably find one in the math library. - Frank Fzhao 09:58, 23 October 2010 (EDT)

• Question 1(b) on HW4. x stands for a point in S^1 but what does it mean by -x? -Kai
  • $S^{1}\subset {\mathbb {R} }^{2}$, and ${\mathbb {R} }^{2}$ is a vector space. Drorbn 13:42, 23 October 2010 (EDT)

• Question. During the proof of A \subset B \subset of A closure when they are all subspaces of X. If A is connected and so is B. I think there is loss of generality. We should prove any non-empty clopen set is B. But we are only proving those clopen sets whose intersection with A is non-empty are B. That is not enough because we could also have non-empty clopen set in B which does not intersect A. -Kai
  • If $B$ doesn't intersect $A$ it's complement will. Drorbn 13:42, 23 October 2010 (EDT)

• Question. Consider the usual basis for infinite product topology that we put on an infinite cartesian product of topological spaces. The basis is just the topology generated minus the empty set right? Xwbdsb 23:23, 23 October 2010 (EDT)
  • No. In an infinite (or even finite) product there are open sets which are unions of cylinders but are not themselves cylinders. A ball in the plane is a union of boxes but it is not a box. Another example is ${\mathbb {R} }^{\omega }-\{{\bar {0}}\}$. Drorbn 11:45, 24 October 2010 (EDT)

Another question. We proved before if we have a collection of metrizable topological spaces then if we put cylinder topology on the infinite cartesian product then the resulting topological space is going to be metrizable. Then why isnt R^R with cylinder topology metrizable a contradiction since each copy of R is metrizable and R^R is just the infinite cartesian product of copies of R with indexing set R. -KaiXwbdsb 22:58, 24 October 2010 (EDT)

Is it true that if one general topological space is metrizable and if one general topological space is homeomorphic to it then it is metrizable? Why? Metrizability is not just topological property? It involves the definition of metric which depends on the structure of a set.?? -Kai Xwbdsb 00:25, 25 October 2010 (EDT)