uniformizable space
Let be a topological space with the topology defined on it. is said to be uniformizable
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there is a uniformity defined on , and
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, the uniform topology induced by .
It can be shown that a topological space is uniformizable iff it is completely regular.
Clearly, every pseudometric space is uniformizable. The converse is true if the space has a countable basis. Pushing this idea further, one can show that a uniformizable space is metrizable iff it is separating (or Hausdorff) and has a countable basis.
Let , , and be defined as above. Then is said to be completely uniformizable if is a complete uniformity.
Every paracompact space is completely uniformizable. Every completely uniformizable space is completely regular, and hence uniformizable.