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Property Suggestion: has finitely many open sets #1800

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@artemetra

Property Suggestion

A space $(X, \tau)$ is said to have finitely many open sets if its topology is finite, i.e. $|\tau|<\infty$.

Rationale

I was looking for examples of spaces that are both Noetherian and Artinian as they seemed like dual properties. The current spaces that pi-base has that are both Noetherian and Artinian are either finite or indiscrete (Explore). I initially thought that we can turn this into a theorem, however there's a simple counterexample: take $X$ to be any infinite set, $p\in X$ a distinguished point and let $\tau = \{\emptyset, \{p\}, X\}$. Ultimately, being Noetherian or Artinian can be reduced to a property of open sets rather than the cardinality of the space. It's probably worth adding such a space too if we add this property.

Relationship to other properties

We certainly have that Finite => Has finitely many open sets. We can replace a bunch of theorems that assume finite with those that just assume Has finitely many open sets.

  • Has finitely many open sets => Artinian
  • Has finitely many open sets => Noetherian
  • Has finitely many open sets => Compact
  • Has finitely many open sets => Second countable
  • etc,

We also have:

  • Indiscrete => Has finitely many open sets
  • Artinian $\wedge$ Noetherian => Has finitely many open sets
  • Has finitely many open sets $\wedge$ ~Finite => ~Door
  • Has finitely many open sets $\wedge$ T0 => Finite
  • certainly a bunch more

For pretty much all spaces we can easily conclude whether we have this property or not. This property is probably not high priority, though.

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