boundary / frontier
Definition.Let be a topological space and let be a subsetof . The boundary (or frontier) of is the set,where the overline denotes the closure
of a set.Instead of , many authors use some other notationsuch as , , or .Note that the symbol is also used for other meanings of ‘boundary’.
From the definition, it follows that the boundary of any set is a closed set.It also follows that ,and .
The term ‘boundary’ (but not ‘frontier’) is used in a different sense for topological manifolds: the boundary of a topological -manifold is the set of points in that do not have a neighbourhood homeomorphic to . (Some authors define topological manifolds in such a way that they necessarily have empty boundary.)For example, the boundary of the topological -manifold is .