Paper 3, Section I, 3E3 E

Metric and Topological Spaces
Part IB, 2017

Let XX and YY be topological spaces.

(a) Define what is meant by the product topology on X×YX \times Y. Define the projection maps p:X×YXp: X \times Y \rightarrow X and q:X×YYq: X \times Y \rightarrow Y and show they are continuous.

(b) Consider Δ={(x,x)xX}\Delta=\{(x, x) \mid x \in X\} in X×XX \times X. Show that XX is Hausdorff if and only if Δ\Delta is a closed subset of X×XX \times X in the product topology.