Paper 4, Section II, H
Part IB, 2010
(1) Prove that if is a compact topological space, then a closed subset of endowed with the subspace topology is compact.
(2) Consider the following equivalence relation on :
Let be the quotient space endowed with the quotient topology, and let be the canonical surjection mapping each element to its equivalence class. Let
(i) Show that is compact.
(ii) Assuming that is dense in , show that is bijective but not homeomorphic.