Space S000154

Fort Space on the Real Numbers

Also known as: Uncountable Fort Space, One-point compactification of an uncountable discrete space

Let X=R{}X=\mathbb R\cup\{\infty\}. Every point of R\mathbb R is isolated and the open neighborhoods of the point \infty are the cofinite subsets of XX containing that point.

This space is the one-point compactification of an uncountable discrete space (compare with Fortissimo space on the real numbers and Fort space on a countably infinite set).

Defined as counterexample #24 ("Uncountable Fort Space") in DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-6290-9.