product topology and subspace topology
Let with be a collection of topological spaces
,and let be subsets. Let
and
In other words, means that is a functionsuch that for each . Thus, andwe have
as sets.
Theorem 1.
The product topology of coincides with the subspace topology induced by .
Proof.
Let us denote by and the product topologies for and , respectively.Also, let
be the canonical projections defined for and .The subbases (http://planetmath.org/Subbasis) for and are given by
where is the topology of and is thesubspace topology of .The claim follows as
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