Locally compact spaces #
We define the following classes of topological spaces:
WeaklyLocallyCompactSpace
: every pointx
has a compact neighborhood.LocallyCompactSpace
: for every pointx
, every open neighborhood ofx
contains a compact neighborhood ofx
. The definition is formulated in terms of the neighborhood filter.
Every point of a weakly locally compact space admits a compact neighborhood.
We say that a topological space is a weakly locally compact space, if each point of this space admits a compact neighborhood.
Instances
In a weakly locally compact space, every compact set is contained in the interior of a compact set.
In a weakly locally compact space,
the filters 𝓝 x
and cocompact X
are disjoint for all X
.
In a locally compact space, every neighbourhood of every point contains a compact neighbourhood of that same point.
There are various definitions of "locally compact space" in the literature,
which agree for Hausdorff spaces but not in general.
This one is the precise condition on X needed
for the evaluation map C(X, Y) × X → Y
to be continuous for all Y
when C(X, Y)
is given the compact-open topology.
See also WeaklyLocallyCompactSpace
, a typeclass that only assumes
that each point has a compact neighborhood.
Instances
In general it suffices that all but finitely many of the spaces are compact, but that's not straightforward to state and use.
For spaces that are not Hausdorff.
A reformulation of the definition of locally compact space: In a locally compact space,
every open set containing x
has a compact subset containing x
in its interior.
In a locally compact space, for every containment K ⊆ U
of a compact set K
in an open
set U
, there is a compact neighborhood L
such that K ⊆ L ⊆ U
: equivalently, there is a
compact L
such that K ⊆ interior L
and L ⊆ U
.