Properties and Examples
- Limit point compactness is equivalent to countable compactness if X is a T1-space and is equivalent to compactness if X is a metric space.
- An example of a space X that is not weakly countably compact is any countable (or larger) set with the discrete topology. A more interesting example is the countable complement topology.
- Even though a continuous function from a compact space X, to an ordered set Y in the order topology, must be bounded, the same thing does not hold if X is limit point compact. An example is given by the space (where X = {1, 2} carries the indiscrete topology and is the set of all integers carrying the discrete topology) and the function given by projection onto the second coordinate. Clearly, ƒ is continuous and is limit point compact (in fact, every nonempty subset of has a limit point) but ƒ is not bounded, and in fact is not even limit point compact.
- Every countably compact space (and hence every compact space) is weakly countably compact, but the converse is not true.
- For metrizable spaces, compactness, limit point compactness, and sequential compactness are all equivalent.
- The set of all real numbers, R, is not limit point compact; the integers are an infinite set but do not have a limit point in R.
- If (X, T) and (X, T*) are topological spaces with T* finer than T and (X, T*) is limit point compact, then so is (X, T).
- A finite space is vacuously limit point compact.
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