extremally disconnected
A topological space is said to be extremally disconnected if every open set in has an open closure
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It can be shown that is extremally disconnected iff any two disjoint open sets in have disjoint closures. Every extremally disconnected space is totally disconnected.
Notes
Some authors like [1] and [2] use the abovedefinition as is, while others (e.g. [3, 4]) requirethat an extremally disconnected space should (in addition to the abovecondition) also be a Hausdorff space.
References
- 1 S. Willard, General Topology,Addison-Wesley, Publishing Company, 1970.
- 2 J. L. Kelley, General Topology,D. van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1955.
- 3 L. A. Steen, J. A. Seebach, Jr., Counterexamples in topology,Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970.
- 4 N. Bourbaki, General Topology, Part 1,Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1966.